Concise hierarchy

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

Original position

Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Subsequent positions

Plataleidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1838

Current position

Plataleidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1838

Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 83. [implicit]

Alternative positions

Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 231.
Plataleinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1838	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 83.
Threskiornithidae (Family) Richmond, 1917	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 132.

Historical positions

Plataleinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1838	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 83.
Threskiornithidae (Family) Richmond, 1917	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 132.
Plataleinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1838	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 368.
Plataleinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1838	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 975.
Plataleinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1838	Ref: E. Mayr & G.W. Cottrell, 1979
Plataleinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1838	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1968): 577.
Plataleinae (Subfamily) Bonaparte, 1838	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1963: 279.
Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 118, 231.
Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 84, 139. [new spelling]

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	5s;3ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 6 May 2015	[5s;3ss]
2003	E.C. Dickinson: 83	[5s;3ss]
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	[5s]
1991 (1990)	C.M. Perrins	[5s]
1758	C. Linnaeus	[3s]