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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 Glareolidae (coursers and pratincoles)-
Genus Rhinoptilus (coursers)
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Species Rhinoptilus africanus (double-banded courser)
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Subspecies Rhinoptilus africanus africanus -
Subspecies Rhinoptilus africanus bisignatus
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Subspecies Rhinoptilus africanus erlangeri
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Subspecies Rhinoptilus africanus gracilis
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Subspecies Rhinoptilus africanus granti
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Subspecies Rhinoptilus africanus hartingi
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Subspecies Rhinoptilus africanus raffertyi
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Subspecies Rhinoptilus africanus traylori
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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.
