Species under Sterna

Species under Sterna

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Species name	Common name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)
Sterna acuticauda Gray, 1831	Black-bellied tern	Indo-West Pacific
Sterna aurantia Gray, 1831	River tern	Indo-West Pacific	43
Sterna bengalensis Lesson, 1831	Lesser crested tern	Indo-West Pacific, Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean	43
Sterna bergii Lichtenstein, 1823	Crested tern	Indo-Pacific, Southeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean	48
Sterna bernsteini Schlegel, 1863	Chinese crested tern	Northwest Pacific	38
Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813	Roseate tern	Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean	43
Sterna elegans Gambel, 1849	Elegant tern	Eastern Pacific	43
Sterna forsteri Nuttall, 1834	Forster's tern	Eastern Pacific and Atlantic Ocean	41
Sterna hirundinacea Lesson, 1831	South American tern	Southeast Pacific and Southwest Atlantic	44
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758	Common tern	Worldwide	38
Sterna lorata Philippi & Landbeck, 1861	Peruvian tern	Southeast Pacific	23
Sterna maxima Boddaert, 1783	Royal tern	Atlantic Ocean, Eastern Pacific and Western Indian Ocean	53
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763	Arctic tern	Circumglobal	38
Sterna repressa Hartert, 1916	White-cheeked tern	Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean	35
Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787	Sandwich tern	Eastern Pacific, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea	45
Sterna striata Gmelin, 1789	White-fronted tern	Southwest Pacific	43
Sterna sumatrana Raffles, 1822	Black-naped tern	Indo-Pacific and Southeast Atlantic	32
Sterna trudeaui Audubon, 1838	Trudeau's tern	Southeast Pacific and Southwest Atlantic	35
Sterna virgata Cabanis, 1875	Kerguelen tern	Antarctic Indian Ocean	33
Sterna vittata Gmelin, 1789	Antarctic tern	Southern Pacific, Southern Atlantic and the Antarctic	41

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