The type locality of the South American Tern, Sterna hirundinacea (Aves: Charadriiformes: Sternidae), with designation of a lectotype

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Carlos, Caio J., Voisin, Jean-François (2013): The type locality of the South American Tern, Sterna hirundinacea (Aves: Charadriiformes: Sternidae), with designation of a lectotype. Zoologia (Curitiba) 30 (3): 356-358, DOI: 10.1590/s1984-46702013000300017, URL: doi.org/10.1590/s1984-46702013000300017 ABSTRACT. The type locality of the South American Tern, Sterna hirundinacea, has long been considered to be the state of Santa Catarina in South Brazil.

This conclusion was probably based on two syntypes, from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, France, one from Laguna and the other from an unspecified locality. The latter was probably shot on the coast of Rio de Įaneiro. A recent molecular study has shown that Brazilian and Patagonian populations of S. hirundinacea are not completely panmictic, though genetic differentiation between them is low.