Sternula

Sternula is a genus of small white terns. It is often subsumed into the larger genus Sterna, although the most recent changes to the AOU checklist considers it a separate genus.[2] The genus name is a diminutive of Sterna, "tern".[3]

Sternula
Little tern
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae
Subfamily: Sterninae
Genus: Sternula
F. Boie, 1822
Type species
Sterna minuta[1]
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

7, see text

Species

Listed alphabetically.[4]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Little ternSternula albifronstemperate and tropical Europe and Asia.
Least ternSternula antillarumNorth America and locally in northern South America.
Damara ternSternula balaenarumsouthern Africa and migrates to tropical African coasts
Peruvian ternSternula lorataChile, Ecuador, and Peru
Fairy ternSternula nereisAustralia, New Caledonia,northern New Zealand
Saunders's ternSternula saundersinorth-western Indian Ocean
Yellow-billed ternSternula superciliarisArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Saunders's and least terns were both formerly considered to be subspecies of little tern.

References
  1. "Laridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
  2. Banks et al. 2007. Forty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds. The Auk 124(1): 1109-1115.
  3. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Shorebirds & allies Archived 2013-12-05 at the Wayback Machine, IOC World Bird List, ver.3.2.
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