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Family Laridae  - Gulls, Terns, Skimmers The skimmers Rynchops and terns are embedded among the gulls in a monophyletic clade; separation of the families Rynchopidae and Sternidae would render the gull family Laridae paraphyletic relative to these other two groups (Baker et al. 2008). Laridae  genera: 22 Laridae  species: 103 Laridae  subspecies: 126 Laridae  Breeding Range: MA, AO, TrO, AF, Worldwide, SO, IO, PAL, NA, OR, AU, PO, SA