Sternula

Genus of birds

Sternula

Little tern
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Charadriiformes
Family:  | Laridae
Subfamily:  | Sterninae
Genus:  | Sternula
F. Boie, 1822
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.[1] The genus name is a diminutive of Sterna, "tern".[2]

## Species[edit]

Listed alphabetically.[3]

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[edit]

1. ^ Banks et al. 2007. Forty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds. The Auk 124(1): 1109-1115.
2. ^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
3. ^ Shorebirds & allies, IOC World Bird List, ver.3.2.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q76408
* Wikispecies: Sternula
* AFD: Sternula
* BOLD: 112597
* CoL: 63TYM
* Fossilworks: 276246
* GBIF: 4849628
* iNaturalist: 144324
* IRMNG: 1338576
* ITIS: 823995
* NBN: NHMSYS0001688284
* NCBI: 425655
* NZOR: 5f301113-7ec9-4cd7-9cd5-f9a23e2b534f
* Plazi: 360F2C8A-229A-1FDF-5A9C-D4AF44532D5E
* WoRMS: 567479
* ZooBank: 0B4C702D-BB51-446F-B126-B55B44CD738C

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