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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Aequorlitornithes |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Suborder: | Lari |
| Family: | Laridae |
| Subfamily: | Sterninae |
| Genus: | Sternula F. Boie, 1822 |
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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.
- Fairy Tern Sternula nereis
- Damara Tern Sternula balaenarum
- Little Tern Sternula albifrons
- Saunders's Tern Sternula saundersi
- Least Tern Sternula antillarum
- Yellow-billed Tern Sternula superciliaris
- Peruvian Tern Sternula lorata
Saunder’s and Least Terns were both formerly considered to be subspecies of Little Tern
References[]
- Olsen and Larsson, Terns of Europe and North America ISBN 0-7136-4056-1
- Banks et al. 2007. Forty-eighth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds. The Auk 124(1): 1109-1115. (AOU Checklist)
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