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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-06

Thalasseus maximus

Royal Tern

WoRMS 413040ITIS 824142key itis:824142
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2026-08-06: worms_id 413040 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted) 2026-08-05: worms_id 413040 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); WoRMS Sterna maxima unaccepted -> Thalasseus maximus; itis:176922 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:824142 (Thalasseus maximus)

Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Thalasseus maximus
Royal Tern53 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

Birds of Belize - <a href="http://www.eyelovebirds.com/checklists/birds-of-belize/" rel="nofollow">www.eyelovebirds.com/checklists/birds-of-belize/</a>
Photo · EyeLoveBirds from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · commons

The royal tern is a tern in the family Laridae. The species is endemic to the Americas, though vagrants have been identified in Europe.W CalCOFI holds 148 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2022.R

148
observations
148
records
148
sampling events
1988–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Seabirds & Marine Mammals 148 obs · 148 events · 1988–2022
    name used: Thalasseus maximus Royal Tern · code ROYT re-keyed

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:824142%22