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Taxonomy
Charadrioidea is a superfamily. It is extant. Its type is Charadrius.
It was corrected as Charadrioidae by Hay (1930).
It was assigned to Charadriiformes by Hay (1930); to Charadriides by Livezey and Zusi (2007); and to Charadrii by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Wetmore (1960) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was corrected as Charadrioidae by Hay (1930).
It was assigned to Charadriiformes by Hay (1930); to Charadriides by Livezey and Zusi (2007); and to Charadrii by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Wetmore (1960) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1930 | Charadrioidae Hay p. 335 |
| 1940 | Charadrioidea Wetmore p. 56 |
| 1956 | Charadrioidea Wetmore p. 69 |
| 1960 | Charadrioidea Wetmore p. 27 |
| 2007 | Charadrioidea Livezey and Zusi p. 92 |
| 2020 | Charadrioidea Worthy and Nguyen p. 93 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Superfm. Charadrioidea
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Fm. Charadriidae Vigors 1825 [lapwing]
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G. Charadrius Linnaeus 1758
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Charadrius alexandrinus Linnaeus 1758 [kentish plover]
Charadrius bicinctus Jardine and Selby 1827 [double-banded plover]
Charadrius collaris Vieillot 1818 [collared plover]
Charadrius leschenaultii Lesson 1826 [greater sand-plover]
Charadrius mongolus Pallas 1776 [lesser sand-plover]
Charadrius montanus Townsend 1837 [mountain plover]
Charadrius morinellus Linnaeus 1758 [Eurasian dotterel]
Charadrius nivosus Cassin 1858 [snowy plover]
Charadrius obscurus Gmelin 1789 [red-breasted dotterel]
Charadrius sanctaehelenae Harting 1873 [Saint Helena plover]
Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte 1825 [semipalmated plover]
†Charadrius sheppardianus Cope 1881
Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus 1758 [killdeer]
Invalid names: Aegialitis Boie 1822 [synonym], Eudromias Brehm 1831 [synonym], Eupoda Brandt 1845 [synonym], Oxyechus Reichenbach 1852 [synonym]
G. Pluvialis Brisson 1760
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Pluvialis apricaria Linnaeus 1758 [European golden-plover]
Pluvialis dominica Mueller 1776 [American golden plover]
Pluvialis fulva Gmelin 1789 [Pacific golden-plover]
Pluvialis squatarola Linnaeus 1758 [black-bellied plover]
G. †Pseudosterna Mercerat 1897
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†Pseudosterna degener Mercerat 1897
†Pseudosterna papeana Mercerat 1897
Subfm. Vanellinae Bonaparte 1842 [crested plover]
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G. Belonopterus Reichenbach 1852
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†Belonopterus edmondi Campbell 1979
†Belonopterus lilloi Cenizo and Agnolín 2017
G. †Lobivanellus Strickland
G. Vanellus Brisson 1760
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†Vanellus liffyae De Pietri et al. 2018
†Vanellus madagascariensis Goodman 1997 [Malagasy lapwing]
†Vanellus selysi Van Beneden 1871
Vanellus vanellus Linnaeus 1758 [northern lapwing]
Invalid names: Pluvialinae MacGillivray 1852 [empty]
Fm. †Rhegminornithidae Wetmore 1943
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Invalid names: Oedicnemidae Gray 1840 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available