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All Gull and Tern Genera

Gull and tern genera are the genera of the family Laridae, which Animal Diversity Web labels gulls, terns and skimmers and divides into the subfamilies Larinae, the gulls and kittiwakes, Rhynchopinae, the skimmers, and Sterninae, the terns and noddys. GBIF is led by Larus with about 92 descendant taxa, Sterna with about 50, Anous with about 30, Chroicocephalus and Thalasseus with about 23 each, Sternula and Onychoprion with about 22 each, Chlidonias with about 13 and Gelochelidon with about 12.

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Animal Diversity Web: Laridae
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Subfamily Larinae (gulls and kittiwakes)
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GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Laridae
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  • Children of Laridae
    "canonicalName":"Larus","vernacularName":"Gulls","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":92
  • Children of Laridae: Sterna
    "canonicalName":"Sterna","vernacularName":"tern","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":50
  • Children of Laridae: Anous
    "canonicalName":"Anous","vernacularName":"Noddys","authorship":"Stephens, 1826","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Stephens, James F. 1826. Aves. in G. Shaw, General Zoology, or Systematic natural history. J. and A. Arch & al., London. Vol. 13 (1): 1-278, pls.1-30.","numDescendants":30
  • Children of Laridae: Chroicocephalus
    "canonicalName":"Chroicocephalus","vernacularName":"Hooded gulls","authorship":"Eyton, 1836","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Eyton, T. C. (1836). A History of the Rarer British. 1-67.","numDescendants":23
  • Children of Laridae: Thalasseus
    "canonicalName":"Thalasseus","vernacularName":"crested terns","authorship":"F.Boie, 1822","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Isis 10, 11 col. 563","numDescendants":23
  • Children of Laridae: Sternula
    "canonicalName":"Sternula","vernacularName":"Small Terns","authorship":"F.Boie, 1822","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Isis 10, 11 col. 563","numDescendants":22
  • Children of Laridae: Onychoprion
    "canonicalName":"Onychoprion","vernacularName":"Brown-backed Terns","authorship":"Wagler, 1832","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Isis 25 col. 277","numDescendants":22
  • Children of Laridae: Chlidonias
    "canonicalName":"Chlidonias","vernacularName":"Black Terns","authorship":"Rafinesque, 1822","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Rafinesque, C.S. (1822). On the Birds of Kentucky and a new Swallow. The Cosmonist, Kentucky Gazette. 36(8): 3-4.","numDescendants":13
  • Children of Laridae: Gelochelidon
    "canonicalName":"Gelochelidon","vernacularName":"Gull-billed Terns","authorship":"C.L.Brehm, 1830","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Brehm, C. L. (1831). Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands. Bernh. Friedr. Voigt. 1022pp.","numDescendants":12
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Wikipedia: Larus
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Larus is a large genus of gulls with worldwide distribution (by far the greatest species diversity is in the Northern Hemisphere).
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Sterna - Wikipedia
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Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Laridae.
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