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
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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]