Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Charadriiformes - (Family) Charadriidae

Original position

Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Charadriinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1825

Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 135.

Alternative positions

Charadriidae (Family) Vigors, 1825	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 983.
Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 253.

Historical positions

Charadriinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1825	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 135.
Charadriinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1825	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 108.
Charadriidae (Family) Vigors, 1825	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990)
Charadriidae (Family) Vigors, 1825	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 983.
Charadriidae (Family) Vigors, 1825	Ref: T.I. Storer et al., 1979
Charadriinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1825	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1975 (1969): 563.
Charadriinae (Subfamily) Vigors, 1825	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1967: 192.
Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 119, 253.
Grallae (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 85, 150. [new position]

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	30s;36ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 24 May 2015	[30s;36ss]
2003	E.C. Dickinson: 137	[30s;36ss]
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	[30s]
1991 (1990)	C.M. Perrins	32s
1758	C. Linnaeus	[11s]