Laridae Vigors, 1825
Sterna acuflavida Cabot, 1847
Sterna acuticauda Gray, 1831
Sterna albifrons Pallas, 1764
Sterna aleutica Baird, 1869
Sterna anaethetus Scopoli, 1786
Sterna antillarum (Lesson, 1847)
Sterna aurantia Gray, 1831
Sterna balaenarum (Strickland, 1852)
Sterna bengalensis Lesson, 1831
Sterna bergii Lichtenstein, 1823
Sterna bernsteini Schlegel, 1863
Sterna caspia Pallas, 1770
Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813
Sterna elegans Gambel, 1849
Sterna eurygnatha
Sterna forsteri Nuttall, 1834
Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, 1766
Sterna hirundinacea Lesson, 1831
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
Sterna lorata Philippi & Landbeck, 1861
Sterna lunata Peale, 1848
Sterna maxima Boddaert, 1783
Sterna nereis (Gould, 1843)
Sterna nilotica J. F. Gmelin, 1789
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763
Sterna repressa Hartert, 1916
Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787
Sterna saundersi Hume, 1877
Sterna striata J. F. Gmelin, 1789
Sterna sumatrana Raffles, 1822
Sterna superciliaris Vieillot, 1819
Sterna trudeaui Audubon, 1838
Sterna virgata Cabanis, 1875
Sterna vittata J. F. Gmelin, 1789
Sterna zimmermanni