Sternula

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[]

Listed alphabetically.^[3]

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.

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.

[1] Banks et al. 2007. Forty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds. The Auk 124(1): 1109-1115.

[job-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.

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