Charadriiformes
Appearance
Charadriiformes | |
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Several members o the order | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Aves |
Clade: | Neognathae |
Clade: | Neoaves |
Clade: | Terrestrornithes |
Order: | Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867 |
Faimilies | |
See text. |
Charadriiformes is a diverse order o smaa tae middlin birds. It includes aboot 350 species an haes members in aw pairts o the warld.
Faimilies
[eedit | eedit soorce]This is a leet o the charadriiform faimilies, presentit in taxonomic order.
- Suborder Scolopaci: snipe-like waders
- Faimily Scolopacidae: snipe, sandpipers, phalaropes, an allies
- Suborder Thinocori: aberrant charadriforms
- Faimily Rostratulidae: paintit snipe
- Faimily Jacanidae: jacanas
- Faimily Thinocoridae: seedsnipe
- Faimily Pedionomidae: Plains Wanderer
- Suborder Lari: gulls an allies
- Faimily Laridae: gulls
- Faimily Rhynchopidae: skimmers
- Faimily Sternidae: terns
- Faimily Alcidae: puffins, guillemots, murres, an allies
- Faimily Stercorariidae: skuas
- Faimily Glareolidae: pratincoles an coursers
- Faimily Pluvianidae: Egyptian Plover
- Faimily Dromadidae: Crab Plover
- Suborder Turnici: buttonquails
- Faimily Turnicidae: buttonquails
- Suborder Chionidi: thick-knees an allies
- Faimily Burhinidae: thick-knees
- Faimily Chionididae: sheathbills
- Faimily Pluvianellidae: Magellanic Plover
- Suborder Charadrii: plover-like waders
- Faimily Ibidorhynchidae: Ibisbill
- Faimily Recurvirostridae: avocets an stilts
- Faimily Haematopodidae: oystercatchers
- Faimily Charadriidae: plovers an lapwings
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