CHARADRIIDAE
(plovers)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Haematopus ostralegus Oystercatcher, Eurasian Oystercatcher	Species		15 images	2 ident. refs
Pluvialis a genus of plovers	Genus	1 subtaxa		1 ident. refs
Vanellus a genus of birds	Genus	1 subtaxa	10 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	CHARADRIIDAE (plovers)
Order	CHARADRIIFORMES (plovers and sea birds)
Class	AVES (birds)
Superclass	TETRAPODA (a superclass of unassigneds)
Phylum	CHORDATA (vertebrates)
Superphylum	DEUTEROSTOMIA (deuterostomes)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

CHARADRIIDAE (plovers) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

AVES
(birds)

CHORDATA
(vertebrates)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CHARADRIIDAE (plovers)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CHARADRIIDAE (plovers)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

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