List of Laridae species

The avian family Laridae comprises the skimmers, noddies, terns, kittiwakes, and gulls. The International Ornithological Committee accepts these 104 species in Laridae, distributed among three subfamilies and 22 genera.
This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.

Common name	Binomial name	IOC sequence
African skimmer	Rynchops flavirostris Vieillot, 1816	1
Indian skimmer	Rynchops albicollis Swainson, 1838	2
Black skimmer	Rynchops niger Linnaeus, 1758	3
White tern	Gygis alba	4
Brown noddy	Anous stolidus	5
Lesser noddy	Anous tenuirostris	6
Black noddy	Anous minutus Boie, F, 1844	7
Grey noddy	Anous albivitta	8
Blue noddy	Anous ceruleus	9
Aleutian tern	Onychoprion aleuticus	10
Sooty tern	Onychoprion fuscatus	11
Bridled tern	Onychoprion anaethetus	12
Spectacled tern	Onychoprion lunatus	13
Little tern	Sternula albifrons	14
Saunders's tern	Sternula saundersi	15
Least tern	Sternula antillarum Lesson, RP, 1847	16
Yellow-billed tern	Sternula superciliaris	17
Peruvian tern	Sternula lorata	18
Fairy tern	Sternula nereis Gould, 1843	19
Damara tern	Sternula balaenarum Strickland, 1853	20
Large-billed tern	Phaetusa simplex	21
Gull-billed tern	Gelochelidon nilotica	22
Australian tern	Gelochelidon macrotarsa	23
Caspian tern	Hydroprogne caspia	24
Inca tern	Larosterna inca	25
Whiskered tern	Chlidonias hybrida	26
Black-fronted tern	Chlidonias albostriatus	27
Black tern	Chlidonias niger	28
White-winged tern	Chlidonias leucopterus	29
River tern	Sterna aurantia Gray, JE, 1831	30
Forster's tern	Sterna forsteri Nuttall, 1834	31
Snowy-crowned tern	Sterna trudeaui Audubon, 1838	32
Arctic tern	Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763	33
South American tern	Sterna hirundinacea Lesson, RP, 1831	34
Antarctic tern	Sterna vittata Gmelin, JF, 1789	35
Kerguelen tern	Sterna virgata Cabanis, 1875	36
Common tern	Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758	37
White-cheeked tern	Sterna repressa Hartert, EJO, 1916	38
Black-naped tern	Sterna sumatrana Raffles, 1822	39
Roseate tern	Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813	40
White-fronted tern	Sterna striata Gmelin, JF, 1789	41
Black-bellied tern	Sterna acuticauda Gray, JE, 1831	42
Sandwich tern	Thalasseus sandvicensis	43
Cabot's tern	Thalasseus acuflavidus	44
Elegant tern	Thalasseus elegans	45
Lesser crested tern	Thalasseus bengalensis	46
West African crested tern	Thalasseus albididorsalis	47
Royal tern	Thalasseus maximus	48
Greater crested tern	Thalasseus bergii	49
Chinese crested tern	Thalasseus bernsteini	50
Swallow-tailed gull	Creagrus furcatus	51
Little gull	Hydrocoloeus minutus	52
Ross's gull	Rhodostethia rosea	53
Black-legged kittiwake	Rissa tridactyla	54
Red-legged kittiwake	Rissa brevirostris	55
Ivory gull	Pagophila eburnea	56
Sabine's gull	Xema sabini	57
Saunders's gull	Saundersilarus saundersi Swinhoe, 1871	58
Slender-billed gull	Chroicocephalus genei	59
Bonaparte's gull	Chroicocephalus philadelphia	60
Silver gull	Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae	61
Black-billed gull	Chroicocephalus bulleri	62
Andean gull	Chroicocephalus serranus	63
Brown-hooded gull	Chroicocephalus maculipennis	67
Black-headed gull	Chroicocephalus ridibundus	65
Brown-headed gull	Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus	66
Grey-headed gull	Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus	67
Hartlaub's gull	Chroicocephalus hartlaubii	68
Grey gull	Leucophaeus modestus	69
Dolphin gull	Leucophaeus scoresbii	70
Laughing gull	Leucophaeus atricilla	71
Franklin's gull	Leucophaeus pipixcan	72
Lava gull	Leucophaeus fuliginosus	73
Pallas's gull	Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus	74
Relict gull	Ichthyaetus relictus	75
Audouin's gull	Ichthyaetus audouinii	76
Mediterranean gull	Ichthyaetus melanocephalus	77
Sooty gull	Ichthyaetus hemprichii	78
White-eyed gull	Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus	79
Pacific gull	Larus pacificus Latham, 1801	80
Belcher's gull	Larus belcheri Vigors, 1829	81
Black-tailed gull	Larus crassirostris Vieillot, 1818	82
Olrog's gull	Larus atlanticus Olrog, 1958	83
Heermann's gull	Larus heermanni Cassin, 1852	84
Common gull	Larus canus Linnaeus, 1758	85
Short-billed gull	Larus brachyrhynchus Richardson, 1831	86
Ring-billed gull	Larus delawarensis Ord, 1815	87
Yellow-footed gull	Larus livens Dwight, 1919	88
Western gull	Larus occidentalis Audubon, 1839	89
Caspian gull	Larus cachinnans Pallas, 1811	90
Kelp gull	Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823	91
European herring gull	Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763	92
Vega gull	Larus vegae Palmén, 1887	93
Mongolian gull	Larus mongolicus Sushkin, 1925	94
Yellow-legged gull	Larus michahellis Naumann, JF, 1840	95
Armenian gull	Larus armenicus Buturlin, 1934	96
Great black-backed gull	Larus marinus Linnaeus, 1758	97
Glaucous gull	Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus, 1767	98
Lesser black-backed gull	Larus fuscus Linnaeus, 1758	99
California gull	Larus californicus Lawrence, 1854	100
American herring gull	Larus smithsonianus Coues, 1862	101
Glaucous-winged gull	Larus glaucescens Naumann, JF, 1840	102
Slaty-backed gull	Larus schistisagus Stejneger, 1884	103
Iceland gull	Larus glaucoides Meyer, B, 1822	104