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 Scolopacidae Vigors, 1825 - sandpipers, snipe
Subfamily Tringinae Gray, 1840 - sandpipers, curlews, phalaropes
Genus Heteroscelus Baird, 1858
Heteroscelus brevipes (Vieillot, 1816) - gray-tailed tattler