Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Ciconiiformes - (Family) Ciconiidae

Original position

Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Ciconiidae (Family) Sundevall, 1836

Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 81.

Alternative positions

Ciconiinae (Subfamily) Gray	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 133.
Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 232.
Mycteriinae (Subfamily) American Ornithologists' Union	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1963: 292.
Mycteriini (Tribe)	Ref: E. Mayr & G.W. Cottrell, 1979

Historical positions

Ciconiidae (Family) Sundevall, 1836	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 81.
Ciconiinae (Subfamily) Gray	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 133.
Ciconiidae (Family) Sundevall, 1836	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 368.
Mycteriini (Tribe)	Ref: E. Mayr & G.W. Cottrell, 1979
Ciconiidae (Family) Sundevall, 1836	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1968): 576.
Mycteriinae (Subfamily) American Ornithologists' Union	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1963: 292.
Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 118, 232.
Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 84, 140. [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	4s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[4s]
2003	E.C. Dickinson	[4s]
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	[4s]
1991 (1990)	C.M. Perrins	[4s]
1758	C. Linnaeus	[1s]