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Laridaegulls, terns, and skimmers
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Classification
- Kingdom Animalia animals
- Phylum Chordata chordates
- Subphylum Vertebrata vertebrates
- Class Aves birds
- Order Charadriiformes shorebirds and relatives
- Family Laridae gulls, terns, and skimmers
Related Taxa
- Species Anous minutus black noddy
- Species Chlidonias niger black tern
- Species Larus argentatus herring gull
- Species Larus atricilla laughing gull
- Species Larus californicus California gull
- Species Larus canus mew gull
- Species Larus delawarensis ring-billed gull
- Species Larus glaucescens glaucous-winged gull
- Species Larus marinus great black-backed gull
- Species Larus philadelphia Bonaparte's gull
- Species Larus pipixcan Franklin's gull
- Species Larus ridibundus black-headed gull
- Species Rissa tridactyla black-legged kittiwake
- Species Rynchops niger black skimmer
- Species Sterna antillarum least tern
- Species Sterna caspia Caspian tern
- Species Sterna elegans elegant tern
- Species Sterna forsteri Forster's tern
- Species Sterna hirundo common tern
- Species Sterna paradisaea Arctic tern
- Species Sterna sandvicensis Sandwich tern
To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2024. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at https://animaldiversity.org.
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