Neornithes Gadow, 1893 - living birds
  
 Neognathae Pycraft 1900
 see Cohort Neognathae Pycraft, 1900
    
 Neoaves Sibley et al. 1988
 see Subcohort Neoaves Sibley et al., 1988
      
 [Order] Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867 - shorebirds, gulls, auks
        
 Family Charadriidae Vigors, 1825 - plovers
          
 Subfamily Vanellinae Blyth, 1849
            
 Genus Vanellus Brisson, 1760
              
 01 Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758) - northern lapwing
              
 02 Vanellus crassirostris (Hartlaub, 1855) - long-toed lapwing
              
 03 Vanellus armatus (Burchell, 1822) - blacksmith lapwing
              
 04 Vanellus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758) - spur-winged lapwing
              
 05 Vanellus duvaucelii (Lesson, 1826) - river lapwing
              
 06 Vanellus tectus (Boddaert, 1783) - black-headed lapwing
              
 07 Vanellus malabaricus (Boddaert, 1783) - yellow-wattled lapwing
              
 08 Vanellus albiceps Gould, 1834 - white-headed lapwing
              
 09 Vanellus lugubris (Lesson, 1826) - Senegal lapwing
              
 10 Vanellus melanopterus (Cretzschmar, 1829) - black-winged lapwing
              
 11 Vanellus coronatus (Boddaert, 1783) - crowned lapwing
              
 12 Vanellus senegallus (Linnaeus, 1766) - wattled lapwing
              
 13 Vanellus melanocephalus (Rüppell, 1845) - spot-breasted lapwing
              
 14 Vanellus superciliosus (Reichenow, 1886) - brown-chested lapwing
              
 15 Vanellus cinereus (Blyth, 1842) - grey-headed lapwing
              
 16 Vanellus indicus (Boddaert, 1783) - red-wattled lapwing
              
 17 ‡?Vanellus macropterus (Wagler, 1827) - Javanese lapwing
              
 18 Vanellus tricolor (Vieillot, 1818) - banded lapwing
              
 19 Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783) - masked lapwing
              
 20 Vanellus gregarius (Pallas, 1771) - sociable lapwing
              
 21 Vanellus leucurus (Lichtenstein, 1823) - white-tailed lapwing
              
 22 Vanellus cayanus (Latham, 1790) - pied lapwing
              
 23 Vanellus chilensis (Molina, 1782) - southern lapwing
              
 24 Vanellus resplendens (Tschudi, 1843) - Andean lapwing