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.[1] The genus name is a diminutive of Sterna, "tern".[2]
| 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 | |
Species
Listed alphabetically.[3]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Little tern | Sternula albifrons | temperate and tropical Europe and Asia. |
 | Least tern | Sternula antillarum | North America and locally in northern South America. |
_(cropped).jpg.webp) | Damara tern | Sternula balaenarum | southern Africa and migrates to tropical African coasts |
.JPG.webp) | Peruvian tern | Sternula lorata | Chile, Ecuador, and Peru |
.jpg.webp) | 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
- Banks et al. 2007. Forty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds. The Auk 124(1): 1109-1115.
- Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 365. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- Shorebirds & allies, IOC World Bird List, ver.3.2.
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