Sternula

Short description: Genus of birds

Sternula

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

Linnaeus, 1766

Species

7, see text

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]

## Species

Listed alphabetically.[4]

Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution

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| Little tern | Sternula albifrons | temperate and tropical Europe and Asia.
| Least tern | Sternula antillarum | North America and locally in northern South America.
| Damara tern | Sternula balaenarum | southern Africa and migrates to tropical African coasts
| Peruvian tern | Sternula lorata | Chile, Ecuador, and Peru
| Fairy tern | Sternula nereis | Australia, New Caledonia,northern New Zealand
| Saunders's tern | Sternula saundersi | north-western Indian Ocean
| Yellow-billed tern | Sternula superciliaris | Argentina, 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". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=61.
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. https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling.
4. ↑ Shorebirds & allies , IOC World Bird List, ver.3.2.

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