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Sterninae (tern)
Taxonomy
Sterninae was named by Bonaparte (1838). It is extant. Its type is Sterna.
It was reranked as the family Sternidae by De Pietri et al. (2011), Smith (2011) and Mayr (2022).
It was assigned to Charadriiformes by Smith (2011); to Laridae by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Chandler (1990), Livezey and Zusi (2007) and del Hoyo et al. (2014); and to Laromorphae by De Pietri et al. (2011) and Mayr (2022).
It was reranked as the family Sternidae by De Pietri et al. (2011), Smith (2011) and Mayr (2022).
It was assigned to Charadriiformes by Smith (2011); to Laridae by Hay (1930), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Chandler (1990), Livezey and Zusi (2007) and del Hoyo et al. (2014); and to Laromorphae by De Pietri et al. (2011) and Mayr (2022).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1838 | Sterninae Bonaparte |
1930 | Sterninae Hay p. 341 |
1940 | Sterninae Wetmore p. 62 |
1956 | Sterninae Wetmore p. 77 |
1990 | Sterninae Chandler p. 136 |
2007 | Sterninae Livezey and Zusi p. 93 |
2011 | Sternidae De Pietri et al. p. 814 |
2011 | Sternidae Smith p. 30 figs. Figure 14 |
2014 | Sterninae del Hoyo et al. |
2022 | Sternidae Mayr p. 77 figs. Fig. 5.2 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
References: Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015, Marsh 1875 |
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Middle Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.77400 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.129 Ma
Collections (20 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Middle Pleistocene | Italy | Sternidae indet. (197927) | |
Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Sternidae indet. (215694) | |
Holocene | Micronesia, Federated States of | Sterninae indet. (194650 194651) | |
Holocene | Solomon Islands | Sterninae indet. (209059 209060 209064 209065 209067 209073 209074 209078 209094 209096 209099) | |
Holocene | Brazil | Phaetusa simplex (215525) | |
Holocene | Marshall Islands | Sterninae indet. (194997 194999) | |
Holocene | French Polynesia | Sterninae indet. (194675) | |
Holocene | American Samoa | Sterninae indet. (193800) |