Sternula
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2026-08-06: worms_id 567479 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:823995")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:823995'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Sternula antillarum Least Tern42
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Laridae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Creagrus furcatus · source
- Photo · Agustín Povedano from El Puerto de Santa María, Extremadura y Andalucía · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Sternula” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362897556
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗