Roseate Tern

SCI Name:  Sterna dougallii
Protonym:  Sterna Dougallii Orn.Dict.Suppl. p.notpg'd
Taxonomy:  Charadriiformes / Laridae / Sterna
Taxonomy Code:  roster
Type Locality:  Cumbrey Islands, Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
Author:  Montagu
Publish Year:  1813
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.

dougalli / dougallii
Dr Peter McDougall (1777-1814) Scottish physician, collector (Mearns & Mearns 1988) (cf. “The most likely candidate is Dr. Patrick MacDougall (1770-1817) of Glasgow ...This was the region of the type specimen, and he was the only MacDougall, M'Dougall, or McDougall practising medicine in Glasgow in 1812” (Holloway 2003) (Sterna).

SUBSPECIES

Roseate Tern (dougallii)
SCI Name: Sterna dougallii dougallii
dougalli / dougallii
Dr Peter McDougall (1777-1814) Scottish physician, collector (Mearns & Mearns 1988) (cf. “The most likely candidate is Dr. Patrick MacDougall (1770-1817) of Glasgow ...This was the region of the type specimen, and he was the only MacDougall, M'Dougall, or McDougall practising medicine in Glasgow in 1812” (Holloway 2003) (Sterna).

Roseate Tern (arideensis)
SCI Name: Sterna dougallii arideensis
arideensis
Aride I., Seychelles.

Roseate Tern (korustes)
SCI Name: Sterna dougallii korustes
korustes
Gr. κορυστης korustēs  helmed man, armed warrior  < κορυσσω korussō  to equip with a helmet  < κορυς korus, κορυθος koruthos  helmet.

Roseate Tern (bangsi)
SCI Name: Sterna dougallii bangsi
bangsi
Outram Bangs (1863-1932) US zoologist, collector (syn. Aethopyga gouldiae dabryii, Amazilia rutila x Amazilia tzacatl, subsp. Amphispiza bilineata, syn. Automolus leucophthalmus, subsp. Buteogallus anthracinus, syn. Catharus aurantiirostris melpomene, subsp. Cuculus canorus, syn. Cyanoderma ruficeps davidi, syn. Emberiza godlewskii omissa, syn. Galerida deva, Grallaria, subsp. Halcyon coromanda, subsp. Hapalocrex flaviventer, subsp. Henicorhina leucophrys, syn. Hydrobates castro, subsp. Leptotila verreauxi, syn. Loxia curvirostra himalayensis, subsp. Manacus manacus, syn. Mirafra cantillans, syn. Myiarchus tuberculifer nigricapillus, syn. Parus major nigriloris, subsp. Peucaea carpalis, subsp. Prinia crinigera, syn. Pterocles orientalis arenarius, subsp. Quiscalus niger, syn. Sheppardia sharpei, subsp. Sitta villosa, subsp. Sterna dougallii, subsp. Tachybaptus dominicus, subsp. Tangara gyrola, subsp. Xiphorhynchus triangularis).

Roseate Tern (gracilis)
SCI Name: Sterna dougallii gracilis
gracilis
L. gracilis or gracilus  slender, elegant, slim, thin.
● “has many characters in common with the Ptilotis chrysotis ... and the Ptilotis similis ... but it differs from both in the greater slenderness of its form, in its diminutive size, and, especially from the former, in the uniform colouring of its throat and abdomen” (Gould 1866) (Microptilotis).
● ex “Gracile Goatsucker” of Latham 1801 (syn. Podargus strigoides).