[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Tetrapoda Hatschek & Cori 1896 [Gauthier, Kluge & Rowe 1988]
     Order Charadriformes see Order Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867
       Family Laridae Vigors, 1825 - gulls, terns and skimmers
         Genus Sterna Linnaeus, 1758
           01 Sterna albifrons Pallas, 1764 - little tern
           02 Sterna bengalensis Lesson, 1831 - lesser crested-tern
           03 Sterna caspia Pallas, 1770 - Caspian tern
           04 Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 - roseate tern
           05 Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, 1766 - sooty tern
           06 Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 - common tern
           07 Sterna maxima Boddaert, 1783 - royal tern
           08 Sterna nilotica Gmelin, 1789 - gull-billed tern
           09 Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 - Arctic tern
           10 Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787 - sandwich tern