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 Numenius Brisson, 1760
               1 Numenius minutus Gould, 1841 - little curlew
               2 ‡?Numenius borealis (Forster, 1772) - eskimo curlew
               3 Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus, 1758) - whimbrel
               4 Numenius tahitiensis (Gmelin, 1789) - bristle-thighed curlew
               5 Numenius tenuirostris Vieillot, 1817 - slender-billed curlew
               6 Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Eurasian curlew
               7 Numenius madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) - Far Eastern curlew
               8 Numenius americanus Bechstein, 1812 - long-billed curlew