Sternula | |
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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]
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.
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]
Listed alphabetically. [4]
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. | |
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.