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Sternula

WoRMS 567479ITIS 823995key itis:823995
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2026-08-06: worms_id 567479 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Creagrus furcatus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Charrancito Sternula albifrons, Parque Natural Bahía de Cádiz, España.
Photo · Agustín Povedano from El Puerto de Santa María, Extremadura y Andalucía · CC BY 2.0 · commons

Sternula is a genus of small white terns, with a global distribution along sheltered sandy coasts and large rivers.W CalCOFI holds 42 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2019.R

42
observations
42
records
1988–2019
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:823995")