Sterna
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{{Taxobox
| name = Sterna
| image = Tern-KayEss-2.jpeg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = [[Common Tern]] by the [[River Thames]]
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[Bird|Aves]]
| ordo = [[Charadriiformes]]
| familia = [[Sternidae]]
| genus = '''''Sterna'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
Many, see text.
}}
'''Sterna''' is a [[genus]] of [[tern]]s in the bird family ''Sternidae''. It used to encompass most "white" terns indiscriminately, but [[mtDNA]] [[DNA sequence|sequence]] comparisons have recently determined that this arrangement is [[paraphyletic]] (Bridge ''et al'', 2005). It is now restricted to the typical large white terns occurring near-globally in coastal regions.
==Classification==
*Genus '''''Sterna''''' - typical white terns
** [[Forster's Tern]] ''Sterna forsteri''
** [[Trudeau's Tern]] ''Sterna trudeaui''
** [[Common Tern]] ''Sterna hirundo''
** [[Roseate Tern]] ''Sterna dougallii''
** [[White-fronted Tern]] ''Sterna striata''
** [[Black-naped Tern]] ''Sterna sumatrana''
** [[South American Tern]] ''Sterna hirundinacea''
** [[Antarctic Tern]] ''Sterna vittata''
** [[Kerguelen Tern]] ''Sterna virgata''
** [[Arctic Tern]] ''Sterna paradisaea''
** [[River Tern (bird)|River Tern]] ''Sterna aurantia''
** [[Black-bellied Tern]] ''Sterna acuticauda'' (possibly ''Chlidonias'')
** [[White-cheeked Tern]] ''Sterna repressa'' (possibly ''Chlidonias'')
==References==
*Bridge, E. S.; Jones, A. W. & Baker, A. J. (2005): A phylogenetic framework for the terns (Sternini) inferred from mtDNA sequences: implications for taxonomy and plumage evolution. ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' '''35''': 459–469. [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~khayes/Journal_Club/summer2006/Bridge_et_al_2005_MPE.pdf PDF fulltext].
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