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Sternula

Sternula
Little tern
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

Genus Sternula – F. Boie, 1822 – seven species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Little tern

Sternula albifrons
(Pallas, 1764) 		temperate and tropical Europe and Asia.
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Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Least tern

Sternula antillarum
Lesson, 1847

Three subspecies
  • S. a. athalassos – (Burleigh & Lowery, 1942)
  • S. a. antillarum – (Lesson, 1847)
  • S. a. browni – (Mearns, 1916)
North America and locally in northern South America.
Map of range 		Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Damara tern

Sternula balaenarum
Strickland, 1853 		southern Africa and migrates to tropical African coasts Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 VU 


Peruvian tern

Sternula lorata
(Philippi & Landbeck, 1861) 		Chile, Ecuador, and Peru
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Diet: 		 EN 


Fairy tern

Sternula nereis
(Gould, 1843)

Three subspecies
 Australia, New Caledonia,northern New Zealand Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 VU 


Saunders's tern

Sternula saundersi
(Hume, 1877) 		north-western Indian Ocean Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Yellow-billed tern

Sternula superciliaris
(Vieillot, 1819) 		Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
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Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 



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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