Sternula

Taxobox
name = "Sternula"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Little Tern
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Charadriiformes
familia = Sternidae
genus = "Sternula"
genus_authority = Gould, 1843
subdivision_ranks = species
subdivision = "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.

* 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. ( [http://www.aou.org/checklist/index.php3 AOU Checklist] )