List of Laridae species
The avian family Laridae comprise the noddies, skimmers, kittiwakes, gulls, and terns. The International Ornithological Congress recognizes these 102 Laridae species distributed among 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 |
| Brown noddy | Anous stolidus | 1 |
| Lesser noddy | Anous tenuirostris | 2 |
| Black noddy | Anous minutus | 3 |
| Blue noddy | Anous ceruleus | 4 |
| Grey noddy | Anous albivitta | 5 |
| White tern | Gygis alba | 6 |
| Black skimmer | Rynchops niger | 7 |
| African skimmer | Rynchops flavirostris | 8 |
| Indian skimmer | Rynchops albicollis | 9 |
| Swallow-tailed gull | Creagrus furcatus | 10 |
| Black-legged kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | 11 |
| Red-legged kittiwake | Rissa brevirostris | 12 |
| Ivory gull | Pagophila eburnea | 13 |
| Sabine's gull | Xema sabini | 14 |
| Slender-billed gull | Chroicocephalus genei | 15 |
| Bonaparte's gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | 16 |
| Silver gull | Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae | 17 |
| Black-billed gull | Chroicocephalus bulleri | 18 |
| Andean gull | Chroicocephalus serranus | 19 |
| Brown-headed gull | Chroicocephalus brunnicephalus | 20 |
| Brown-hooded gull | Chroicocephalus maculipennis | 21 |
| Black-headed gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | 22 |
| Grey-headed gull | Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus | 23 |
| Hartlaub's gull | Chroicocephalus hartlaubii | 24 |
| Saunders's gull | Chroicocephalus saundersi | 25 |
| Little gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | 26 |
| Ross's gull | Rhodostethia rosea | 27 |
| Dolphin gull | Leucophaeus scoresbii | 28 |
| Lava gull | Leucophaeus fuliginosus | 29 |
| Laughing gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | 30 |
| Franklin's gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | 31 |
| Grey gull | Leucophaeus modestus | 32 |
| Relict gull | Ichthyaetus relictus | 33 |
| Audouin's gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | 34 |
| Mediterranean gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | 35 |
| Pallas's gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | 36 |
| White-eyed gull | Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus | 37 |
| Sooty gull | Ichthyaetus hemprichii | 38 |
| Pacific gull | Larus pacificus | 39 |
| Belcher's gull | Larus belcheri | 40 |
| Olrog's gull | Larus atlanticus | 41 |
| Black-tailed gull | Larus crassirostris | 42 |
| Heermann's gull | Larus heermanni | 43 |
| Mew gull | Larus canus | 44 |
| Ring-billed gull | Larus delawarensis | 45 |
| California gull | Larus californicus | 46 |
| Great black-backed gull | Larus marinus | 47 |
| Kelp gull | Larus dominicanus | 48 |
| Glaucous-winged gull | Larus glaucescens | 49 |
| Western gull | Larus occidentalis | 50 |
| Yellow-footed gull | Larus livens | 51 |
| Glaucous gull | Larus hyperboreus | 52 |
| Iceland gull | Larus glaucoides | 53 |
| European herring gull | Larus argentatus | 54 |
| American herring gull | Larus smithsonianus | 55 |
| Vega gull | Larus vegae | 56 |
| Caspian gull | Larus cachinnans | 57 |
| Yellow-legged gull | Larus michahellis | 58 |
| Armenian gull | Larus armenicus | 59 |
| Slaty-backed gull | Larus schistisagus | 60 |
| Lesser black-backed gull | Larus fuscus | 61 |
| Gull-billed tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | 62 |
| Australian tern | Gelochelidon macrotarsa | 63 |
| Caspian tern | Hydroprogne caspia | 64 |
| Royal tern | Thalasseus maximus | 65 |
| Greater crested tern | Thalasseus bergii | 66 |
| Lesser crested tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | 67 |
| West African crested tern | Thalasseus albididorsalis | 68 |
| Chinese crested tern | Thalasseus bernsteini | 69 |
| Sandwich tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | 70 |
| Cabot's tern | Thalasseus acuflavidus | 71 |
| Elegant tern | Thalasseus elegans | 72 |
| Little tern | Sternula albifrons | 73 |
| Saunders's tern | Sternula saundersi | 74 |
| Least tern | Sternula antillarum | 75 |
| Yellow-billed tern | Sternula superciliaris | 76 |
| Peruvian tern | Sternula lorata | 77 |
| Fairy tern | Sternula nereis | 78 |
| Damara tern | Sternula balaenarum | 79 |
| Aleutian tern | Onychoprion aleuticus | 80 |
| Spectacled tern | Onychoprion lunatus | 81 |
| Bridled tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | 82 |
| Sooty tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | 83 |
| River tern | Sterna aurantia | 84 |
| Roseate tern | Sterna dougallii | 85 |
| White-fronted tern | Sterna striata | 86 |
| Black-naped tern | Sterna sumatrana | 87 |
| South American tern | Sterna hirundinacea | 88 |
| Common tern | Sterna hirundo | 89 |
| White-cheeked tern | Sterna repressa | 90 |
| Arctic tern | Sterna paradisaea | 91 |
| Antarctic tern | Sterna vittata | 92 |
| Kerguelen tern | Sterna virgata | 93 |
| Forster's tern | Sterna forsteri | 94 |
| Snowy-crowned tern | Sterna trudeaui | 95 |
| Black-bellied tern | Sterna acuticauda | 96 |
| Black-fronted tern | Chlidonias albostriatus | 97 |
| Whiskered tern | Chlidonias hybrida | 98 |
| White-winged tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | 99 |
| Black tern | Chlidonias niger | 100 |
| Large-billed tern | Phaetusa simplex | 101 |
| Inca tern | Larosterna inca | 102 |