Species profile—Onychoprion fuscatus (sooty tern)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Laridae (gulls and terns) → Onychoprion fuscatus (sooty tern)
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Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Laridae (gulls and terns)
- Scientific name
- Onychoprion fuscatus Linnaeus, 1766
- Common name
- sooty tern
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1898
- Synonym(s)
- Sterna fuscata
Onychoprion fuscata - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine & Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1898
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.