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Charadrius
Taxonomy
Charadrius was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Charadriidae, Charadrioidea, Charadriinae.
It was assigned to Charadriinae by Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956); to Scolopacidae by Guthrie (1992); to Charadriiformes by Smith (2011); and to Charadriidae by Hay (1902), Wetmore (1962), Olson (1975), Chandler (1990), Morgan (1994), Worthy (1997), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Charadriinae by Hay (1930), Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956); to Scolopacidae by Guthrie (1992); to Charadriiformes by Smith (2011); and to Charadriidae by Hay (1902), Wetmore (1962), Olson (1975), Chandler (1990), Morgan (1994), Worthy (1997), Worthy and Grant-Mackie (2003) and Clements et al. (2017).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Charadrius Linnaeus p. 150 |
| 1822 | Aegialitis Boie |
| 1831 | Eudromias Brehm |
| 1845 | Eupoda Brandt |
| 1852 | Oxyechus Reichenbach |
| 1902 | Charadrius Hay p. 526 |
| 1930 | Charadrius Hay p. 336 |
| 1930 | Oxyechus Hay p. 336 |
| 1933 | Charadrius Lambrecht p. 533 |
| 1940 | Charadrius Wetmore p. 56 |
| 1940 | Eupoda Wetmore p. 56 |
| 1940 | Oxyechus Wetmore p. 56 |
| 1956 | Charadrius Wetmore p. 70 |
| 1956 | Eupoda Wetmore p. 70 |
| 1962 | Charadrius Wetmore p. 9 |
| 1975 | Charadrius Olson p. 25 |
| 1990 | Charadrius Chandler p. 132 |
| 1992 | Charadrius Guthrie p. 323 |
| 1994 | Charadrius Morgan p. 467 |
| 1997 | Charadrius Worthy p. 105 |
| 2003 | Charadrius Worthy and Grant-Mackie p. 450 |
| 2011 | Charadrius Smith p. 30 figs. Figure 14 |
| 2017 | Charadrius Clements et al. |
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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.
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]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available