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Thalasseus maximus (royal tern)
Taxonomy
Sterna maxima was named by Boddaert (1783). It is extant.
It was recombined as Thalasseus maximus by Clements et al. (2017).
It was recombined as Thalasseus maximus by Clements et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1783 | Sterna maxima Boddaert |
| 2001 | Sterna maxima Olson and Rasmussen p. 269 |
| 2017 | Thalasseus maximus Clements et al. |
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Thalasseus maximus Boddaert 1783 [royal tern]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||