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Black-naped Tern LEI

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Cladus: Sarcopterygii
Cladus: Rhipidistia
Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha
Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes
Cladus: Elpistostegalia
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Cladus: Avemetatarsalia
Cladus: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauriformes
Cladus: Dracohors
Cladus: Dinosauria
Ordo: Saurischia
Cladus: Eusaurischia
Subordo: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Cladus: Averostra
Cladus: Tetanurae
Cladus: Avetheropoda
Cladus: Coelurosauria
Cladus: Tyrannoraptora
Cladus: Maniraptoromorpha
Cladus: Maniraptoriformes
Cladus: Maniraptora
Cladus: Pennaraptora
Cladus: Paraves
Cladus: Eumaniraptora
Cladus: Avialae
Infraclassis: Aves
Cladus: Euavialae
Cladus: Avebrevicauda
Cladus: Pygostylia
Cladus: Ornithothoraces
Cladus: Ornithuromorpha
Cladus: Carinatae
Parvclassis: Neornithes
Cohors: Neognathae
Cladus: Neoaves
Ordo: Charadriiformes
Subordo: Lari

Familia: Laridae
Subfamilia: Sterninae
Genus: Sterna
Species: Sterna sumatrana
Subspecies: S. s. mathewsi – S. s. sumatrana
Name

Sterna sumatrana Raffles, 1822
References

Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13: 329.

Vernacular names
čeština: Rybák bělotemenný
Deutsch: Schwarznacken-Seeschwalbe
ދިވެހިބަސް: ކިރު ދޫނި
English: Black-naped Tern
Esperanto: Sumatra ŝterno
español: Charrán de Sumatra
français: Sterne diamant
magyar: Feketefejű csér
日本語: エリグロアジサシ
Bahasa Melayu: Burung Camar Tengkuk Hitam
lea faka-Tonga: tala tuʻakiuʻuli
粵語: 黑枕燕鷗
中文: 黑枕燕鸥

The black-naped tern (Sterna sumatrana) is an oceanic tern mostly found in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is rarely found inland.
Description

The tern is about 30 cm long with a wing length of 21–23 cm. Their beaks and legs are black, but the tips of their bills are yellow. They have long forked tails. The black-naped tern has a white face and breast with a grayish-white back and wings. The first couple of their primary feathers are gray.

There are two listed subspecies:

S. s. mathewsi (Stresemann, 1914) – islands of the western Indian Ocean
S. s. sumatrana (Raffles, 1822) – islands of the eastern Indian Ocean through to the western Pacific & Australasia

References

BirdLife International (2018). "Sterna sumatrana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22694612A132561758. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22694612A132561758.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

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