Laridae
Laridae sunt familiae avium maritimarum ordinis Charadriiformium, cui sunt lari, sterninae, et rynchopes, et quae circa centum species in viginti duo genera digestas comprehendit. Quae aves, plerumque aeriales, sese ad circumiecta per omnem orbem terrarum facile accommodant.

Taxinomia

Familia Laridarum (nomine Laridia) a Constantino Samuele Rafinesque, polymathe Francico, anno 1815 introducta est. Quae familia olim solum laros comprehendebat, cum sterninae in Sternidas rhyncopesque in Rynchopidas, suas familias proprias, digerentur, anois eodem tempore in Sternidas digestis. Anno autem 1990, Carolus Sibley et Ionatan Ahlquist species alcidarum et stercorarii in Laridas, familiam latiorem, digesserunt.

Studium moleculare phylogeneticum a Baker, Pereira, et Paton anno 2007 divulgatum asseruit aves generis Anoi gregem sororium cladi qui laros, rhyncopes, aliosque sternos comprehendit constituere. Ad gregem familiarem monophyleticum constituendam, familiam Laridarum amplificavit, ut nova familia quaedam genera olim in Sternidas Rynchopidasque digesta comprehenderet.

Baker et socii invenierunt stirpem laridarum ex stirpe decessisse ex qua Stercorariidae Alcidaeque ortae erant, ante Cretaceum finitum per aevum dinosaurorum. Etiam invenierunt liridas ipsas Palaeocaeno ineunte abhinc annorum 60 milliones fere crescere coepisse. Geraldus Mayr, palaeontologus Germanus, haec tempora dubitans, subiecit fossilia non idonea inter data molecularia adhibita fuisse. Prima charadriiformium fossilia solum ex Eocaeno exeunte exstant, abhinc annorum 35 milliones fere.

Andreas Ödeen et socii, evolutionem facultatis visus radiationis ultraviolaceae in avibus litoralibus investigantes, genum SWS1 opsin in variis speciebus perscrutabantur, quia lari fuerant solae aves litorales qui hanc proprietatem nactae erant. Invenierunt hoc genum adesse in stirpibus larorum, rynchopum, et anoorum, sed non in stirpe sterninarum. Praeterea, probaverunt anoos esse unam ex primis stirpibus; indicia autem non validiora videntur.

Genera
Genera ordine taxinomico infra perscribuntur.

Anous
Genus Anous (5 species)
Genus Gygis

Rynchops
Genus Rynchops (3 species)

Lari
Genus Creagrus
Genus Rissa (2 species)
Genus Pagophila
Genus Xema
Genus Chroicocephalus (11 species)
Genus Hydrocoloeus
Genus Rhodostethia
Genus Leucophaeus (5 species)
Genus Ichthyaetus (6 species)
Genus Larus (24 species)

Sterninae
Genus Gelochelidon (2 species)
Genus Hydroprogne
Genus Thalasseus (8 species)
Genus Sternula (7 species)
Genus Onychoprion (4 species)
Genus Sterna (13 species)
Genus Chlidonias (4 species)
Genus Phaetusa
Genus Larosterna

Distributio et habitatio
Laridae per omnem tellurem inveniuntur, partim accommodationis causa. Plurimae multo aerialiores quam maiores sunt, qui ut videntur erant aves litorales.

Avis aquatica

Notae

Bibliographia

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Baker, Allan J., Sérgio L. Pereira, et Tara A. Paton. 2008. "Erratum: Phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of Charadriiformes genera: multigene evidence for the Cretaceous origin of at least 14 clades of shorebirds." Biology Letters 4: 762–63. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0606erratum.
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Mayr, Gerald. 2011. "The phylogeny of charadriiform birds (shorebirds and allies): reassessing the conflict between morphology and molecules." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (4): 916–34. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00654.x.
Moynihan, Martin. 1959. A revision of the family Laridae (Aves). American Museum Novitates, no. 1928. Novi Ebooaci: American Museum of Natural History PDF.
Odeen, Anders, Olle Håstad, et Per Alström.2010. "Evolution of ultraviolet vision in shorebirds (Charadriiformes)." Biology Letters 6 (3): 370–74. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0877. PMC 2880050. PMID 20015861.
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Nexus externi

Aves maritimae
Familiae animalium
 
Taxa Rafinesque
Taxa 1815