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Charadriidae (lapwing)
Taxonomy
Charadriidae was named by Vigors (1825). It is extant. Its type is Charadrius.
It was assigned to Scolopacoidea by Hay (1902); to Charadrioidae by Hay (1930); to Limicolae by Lambrecht (1933); to Charadriiformes by Olson (1975), Olson and James (1982), Carroll (1988), Chandler (1990), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Hou and Ericson (2002) and Clements et al. (2017); to Charadrioidea by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Livezey and Zusi (2007) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020); to Charadrii by del Hoyo et al. (2014), De Pietri et al. (2018) and Mayr (2022); and to Charadriiformes by Tambussi et al. (2023).
It was assigned to Scolopacoidea by Hay (1902); to Charadrioidae by Hay (1930); to Limicolae by Lambrecht (1933); to Charadriiformes by Olson (1975), Olson and James (1982), Carroll (1988), Chandler (1990), Olson and Rasmussen (2001), Hou and Ericson (2002) and Clements et al. (2017); to Charadrioidea by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Livezey and Zusi (2007) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020); to Charadrii by del Hoyo et al. (2014), De Pietri et al. (2018) and Mayr (2022); and to Charadriiformes by Tambussi et al. (2023).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1825 | Charadriidae Vigors |
| 1902 | Charadriidae Hay p. 526 |
| 1930 | Charadriidae Hay p. 335 |
| 1933 | Charadriidae Lambrecht p. 532 |
| 1940 | Charadriidae Wetmore p. 56 |
| 1956 | Charadriidae Wetmore p. 70 |
| 1975 | Charadriidae Olson p. 25 |
| 1982 | Charadriidae Olson and James p. 36 |
| 1988 | Charadriidae Carroll |
| 1990 | Charadriidae Chandler p. 132 |
| 2001 | Charadriidae Olson and Rasmussen p. 293 |
| 2002 | Charadriidae Hou and Ericson p. 897 |
| 2007 | Charadriidae Livezey and Zusi p. 92 |
| 2014 | Charadriidae del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Charadriidae Clements et al. |
| 2018 | Charadriidae De Pietri et al. p. 337 |
| 2020 | Charadriidae Worthy and Nguyen p. 93 |
| 2022 | Charadriidae Mayr p. 77 figs. Fig. 5.2 |
| 2023 | Charadriidae Tambussi et al. p. 272 |
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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 madagscariensis Goodman 1997 [Malagasy lapwing]
†Vanellus selysi Van Beneden 1871
Vanellus vanellus Linnaeus 1758 [northern lapwing]
Invalid names: Pluvialinae MacGillivray 1852 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available