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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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Eumetazoa (metazoans)-
Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
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Phylum Chordata (chordates)
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Craniata (craniates)
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Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
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Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
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Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
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Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates)
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Tetrapoda (tetrapods)
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Amniota (amniotes)
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Class Reptilia
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Class Aves (birds)
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Subclass Neognathae (neognath birds)
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Infraclass Neoaves (modern birds)
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Order Charadriiformes (shorebirds and relatives)
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Family Alcidae (puffins, murres, auklets, and relatives) -
Family Burhinidae (thick-knees) -
Family Charadriidae (lapwings and plovers)
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Family Chionidae (sheathbills and Magellanic plover)
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Family Dromadidae (crab plover)
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Family Glareolidae (coursers and pratincoles)
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Family Haematopodidae (oystercatchers)
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Family Ibidorhynchidae (ibisbill)
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Family Jacanidae (jacanas)
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Family Laridae (gulls, terns, and skimmers)
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Family Pteroclididae (sandgrouse)
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Family Recurvirostridae (avocets and stilts)
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Family Rostratulidae (painted snipe)
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Family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, snipes, and relatives)
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Family Stercorariidae (skuas and jaegers)
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Family Thinocoridae (seedsnipe)
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Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.
Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.
