Sentence examples for as sterna from inspiring English sources

The greater crested tern was originally described as Sterna bergii by German naturalist Martin Lichtenstein in 1823, but was moved to its current genus, Thalasseus, after mitochondrial DNA studies confirmed that the three main head patterns shown by terns (no black cap, black cap, black cap with a white forehead) corresponded to distinct clades.

The immature plumages of Arctic tern were originally described as separate species, Sterna portlandica and Sterna pikei.

In the exoporian type (in Hepaloidae and Mnesarchaeoidea) are two separate places for insemination and oviposition, both occurring on the same sterna as the monotrysian type, i.e. 9 and 10.

Livezey and Zusi (2006) characterized the sterna as a distinctive feature that is shared by pelicans, herons, ibises, Suloidea, storks, and flamingos.

For each sample, the sex of termites in tandem pairs and of the remaining single termites was determined by examining the terminal abdominal sterna as described in Higa (1981) using a stereomicroscope (LEICA MZ16, Meyers Instruments, Houston, TX).

Abdomen with 9 segments, widest at 4th segment with a width of 4 mm, covered with dense and stiff setae; intersegmental membrane glabrous, clear, about 0.3 - 0.5 times as long as adjacent terga or sterna, Spiracles visible as dark spots on lateroterga 2 8.

(Common) white tern, Gygis alba (protonym, Sterna alba), also known as the manu-o-Kū, or the angel tern, white noddy, Atlantic white tern, and incorrectly (and confusingly) as the fairy tern (a common name that actually belongs to a different species, Sternula nereis), photographed at Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii (USA).

Most terns were formerly treated as belonging to one large genus, Sterna, with just a few dark species placed in other genera; in 1959, only the noddies and the Inca tern were excluded from Sterna.