ADW: Vanellus: CLASSIFICATION

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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
- Eumetazoa (metazoans)
  - Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
    - Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
      - Phylum Chordata (chordates)
        
        Craniata (craniates)
        
        Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
        
        Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
        
        Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
        
        Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates)
        
        Tetrapoda (tetrapods)
        
        Amniota (amniotes)
        
        Class Reptilia
        
        Class Aves (birds)
        
        Subclass Neognathae (neognath birds)
        
        Infraclass Neoaves (modern birds)
        
        Order Charadriiformes (shorebirds and relatives)
        
        Family Charadriidae (lapwings and plovers)
        
        Genus Vanellus (lapwings)
        
        Species Vanellus albiceps (white-headed lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus armatus (blacksmith lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus cayanus (pied lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus chilensis (southern lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus cinereus (grey-headed lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus coronatus (crowned lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus crassirostris (long-toed lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus duvaucelii (river lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus gregarius (sociable lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus indicus (red-wattled lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus leucurus (white-tailed lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus lugubris (lesser black-winged lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus macropterus (Javan wattled lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus malabaricus (yellow-wattled lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus melanocephalus (spot-breasted lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus melanopterus (black-winged lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus miles (masked lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus resplendens (Andean lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus senegallus (African wattled lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus spinosus (spur-winged lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus superciliosus (brown-chested lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus tectus (black-headed lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus tricolor (banded lapwing)
        
        Species Vanellus vanellus (northern lapwing)

Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.

To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2012. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at http://animaldiversity.org.

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