Black-naped Tern

SCI Name:  Sterna sumatrana
Protonym:  Sterna Sumatrana Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.329
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae / Sterna
Taxonomy Code:  blnter1
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
Author:  Raffles
Publish Year:  1822
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

STERNA
(Laridae; Ϯ Common Tern S. hirundo) Old English names Stern, Stearn or Starn for the Black Tern (cf. Swedish Tärna; Norwegian Terne); "70. STERNA.  Rostrum edentulum, subulatum, rectum, acutum apice compressiusculo.  Nares lineares." (Linnaeus 1758); "Sterna Linné, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, p. 137. Type, by tautonymy, Sterna hirundo Linné (Sterna, prebinomial specific name in synonymy)." (Peters 1934, II, 331). Linnaeus's Sterna comprised three species (S. stolida, S. Hirundo, S. nigra).
Var. Stenia, Terna.
Synon. Chelido, Gygisterna, Potamochelidon, Pseudosterna, Seena, Thalassaea.

sterna
Mod. L. sterna tern.

sumatrae / sumatrana / sumatranum / sumatranus / sumatrensis
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia  < Sanskrit Samudra  sea (a name subsequently mangled by European travellers).
● ex “Malacca Partridge” of Latham 1823 (syn. Caloperdix oculeus).
● Perhaps the “Polo Condor Gull” of Latham 1801 (Sterna).
● Erroneous TL. Sumatra (= Celebes / Sulawesi) (Tanygnathus).

SUBSPECIES

Black-naped Tern (sumatrana)
SCI Name: Sterna sumatrana sumatrana
sumatrae / sumatrana / sumatranum / sumatranus / sumatrensis
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies / Indonesia  < Sanskrit Samudra  sea (a name subsequently mangled by European travellers).
● ex “Malacca Partridge” of Latham 1823 (syn. Caloperdix oculeus).
● Perhaps the “Polo Condor Gull” of Latham 1801 (Sterna).
● Erroneous TL. Sumatra (= Celebes / Sulawesi) (Tanygnathus).

Black-naped Tern (mathewsi)
SCI Name: Sterna sumatrana mathewsi
mathewsi
● Hamilton Bartlett Mathews (1873-1959) Australian surveyor, brother of ornithologist Gregory M. Mathews (syn. Acanthiza nana modesta).
● Gregory Macalister Mathews (1876-1949) Australian ornithologist, collector (syn. Anas gracilis, Cincloramphus, syn. Fregata minor, syn. Smicrornis brevirostris, subsp. Sterna sumatrana, syn. Thalassarche chrysostoma).