A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Laridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Blue NoddyAnous ceruleus (F. D. Bennett, 1840) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black NoddyAnous minutus F. Boie, 1844 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown NoddyAnous stolidus (Linnaeus, 1758) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser NoddyAnous tenuirostris (Temminck, 1823) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-fronted TernChlidonias albostriatus (G. R. Gray, 1845) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Whiskered TernChlidonias hybrida (Pallas, 1811) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black TernChlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown-headed GullChroicocephalus brunnicephalus (Jerdon, 1840) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-billed GullChroicocephalus bulleri (F. W. Hutton, 1871) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray-hooded GullChroicocephalus cirrocephalus (Vieillot, 1818) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Slender-billed GullChroicocephalus genei (Brème, 1839) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hartlaub's GullChroicocephalus hartlaubii (Bruch, 1855) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown-hooded GullChroicocephalus maculipennis (M. H. K. Lichtenstein, 1823) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Silver GullChroicocephalus novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia (Ord, 1815) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus (Linnaeus, 1766) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Saunders's GullChroicocephalus saundersi Swinhoe, 1871 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andean GullChroicocephalus serranus (Tschudi, 1844) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Swallow-tailed GullCreagrus furcatus (Néboux, 1842) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Australian TernGelochelidon macrotarsa (Gould, 1837) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Angel TernGygis alba (Sparrman, 1786) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Audouin's GullIchthyaetus audouinii (Payraudeau, 1826) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Great Black-headed GullIchthyaetus ichthyaetus (Pallas, 1773) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-eyed GullIchthyaetus leucophthalmus (Temminck, 1825) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mediterranean GullIchthyaetus melanocephalus (Temminck, 1820) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Inca TernLarosterna inca (R. Lesson & Garnot, 1827) | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| European Herring GullLarus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Armenian GullLarus armenicus Buturlin, 1934 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Olrog's GullLarus atlanticus Olrog, 1958 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Band-tailed GullLarus belcheri Vigors, 1829 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Short-billed GullLarus brachyrhynchus Richardson, 1831 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caspian GullLarus cachinnans Pallas, 1811 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| California GullLarus californicus Lawrence, 1854 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common GullLarus canus Linnaeus, 1758 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostris Vieillot, 1818 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis Ord, 1815 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kelp GullLarus dominicanus M. H. K. Lichtenstein, 1823 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Glaucous-winged GullLarus glaucescens J. F. Naumann, 1840 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Iceland GullLarus glaucoides B. Meyer, 1822 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Heermann's GullLarus heermanni Cassin, 1852 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreus Gunnerus, 1767 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yellow-footed GullLarus livens Dwight, 1919 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus Linnaeus, 1758 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis J. F. Naumann, 1840 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Western GullLarus occidentalis Audubon, 1839 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Slaty-backed GullLarus schistisagus Stejneger, 1884 | LaridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.