Neornithes Gadow, 1893 - living birds
   Neognathae Pycraft 1900 see Cohort Neognathae Pycraft, 1900
     Neoaves Sibley et al. 1988 see Subcohort Neoaves Sibley et al., 1988
       [Order] Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867 - shorebirds, gulls, auks
         Family Laridae Vigors, 1825 - gulls, terns and skimmers
           Subfamily Sterninae Bonaparte, 1838 - terns
             Genus Sterna Linnaeus, 1758
               01 Sterna nilotica Gmelin, 1789 - gull-billed tern
               02 Sterna caspia Pallas, 1770 - Caspian tern
               03 Sterna elegans Gambel, 1849 - elegant tern
               04 Sterna bengalensis Lesson, 1831 - lesser crested-tern
               05 Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787 - sandwich tern
               06 Sterna bernsteini Schlegel, 1863 - Chinese crested-tern
               07 Sterna maxima Boddaert, 1783 - royal tern
               08 Sterna bergii Lichtenstein, 1823 - great crested-tern
               09 Sterna aurantia Gray, 1831 - river tern
               10 Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813 - roseate tern
               11 Sterna striata Gmelin, 1789 - white-fronted tern
               12 Sterna sumatrana Raffles, 1822 - black-naped tern
               13 Sterna hirundinacea Lesson, 1831 - South American tern
               14 Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 - common tern
               15 Sterna repressa Hartert, 1916 - white-cheeked tern
               16 Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763 - Arctic tern
               17 Sterna vittata Gmelin, 1789 - Antarctic tern
               18 Sterna virgata Cabanis, 1875 - Kerguelen tern
               19 Sterna forsteri Nuttall, 1834 - Forster's tern
               20 Sterna trudeaui Audubon, 1838 - snowy-crowned tern
               21 Sterna albifrons Pallas, 1764 - little tern
               22 Sterna saundersi Hume, 1877 - Saunders's tern
               23 Sterna antillarum (Lesson, 1847) - least tern
               24 Sterna superciliaris Vieillot, 1819 - yellow-billed tern
               25 Sterna lorata Philippi & Landbeck, 1861 - Peruvian tern
               26 Sterna nereis (Gould, 1843) - fairy tern
               27 Sterna balaenarum (Strickland, 1852) - Damara tern
               28 Sterna acuticauda Gray, 1831 - black-bellied tern
               29 Sterna aleutica Baird, 1869 - Aleutian tern
               30 Sterna lunata Peale, 1848 - grey-backed tern
               31 Sterna anaethetus Scopoli, 1786 - bridled tern
               32 Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, 1766 - sooty tern
               33 Sterna albistriata see Sterna albostriata (G.R. Gray, 1845)