Sternula antillarum
Least Tern
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2026-08-06: worms_id 567797 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted) 2026-08-05: worms_id 567797 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); WoRMS Sterna antillarum unaccepted -> Sternula antillarum; itis:176923 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:824127 (Sternula antillarum)
The least tern is a species of tern that breeds in North America and locally in northern South America. It is closely related to, and was formerly often considered conspecific with, the little tern of the Old World.W CalCOFI holds 42 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2019.R
- 42
- observations
- 42
- records
- 42
- sampling events
- 1988–2019
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same
strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses
(dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet
pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.
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name used: Sternula antillarum Least Tern · code
LETEre-keyed
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:824127")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:824127'").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.
Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Sternula
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Creagrus furcatus · source
- Photo · Bear Golden Retriever from auburn,ny, usa · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Least tern” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372233618
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Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird
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 ↗