Phylum Chordata Bateson, 1885 - chordates
   Class Aves Linnaeus, 1758 - birds see Subclass Aves Linnaeus, 1758
     Subclass Neornithes Gadow, 1893 see Clade Neornithes Gadow, 1893
       Superorder Neognathae Pycraft, 1900 see Cohort Neognathae Pycraft, 1900
         Order Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867 - shorebirds, gulls, auks
           Suborder Charadrii Huxley, 1867 - shorebirds see Order Charadriiformes Huxley, 1867
             Family Scolopacidae Vigors, 1825 - sandpipers, snipe
               Subfamily Gallinagoninae Jehl, 1968 see Subfamily Scolopacinae Vigors
                 Genus Gallinago Brisson, 1760
                   Gallinago andina Taczanowski, 1875 - Puna snipe
                   Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758) - common snipe
                   Gallinago hardwickii (Gray, 1831) - Latham's snipe
                   Gallinago imperialis Sclater & Salvin, 1869 - imperial snipe
                   Gallinago jamesoni (Jardine & Bonaparte, 1855) - Andean snipe
                   Gallinago macrodactyla Bonaparte, 1839 - Madagascar snipe
                   Gallinago magellanicus see Gallinago paraguaiae magellanica (King, 1828)
                   Gallinago media (Latham, 1787) - great snipe
                   Gallinago megala Swinhoe, 1861 - Swinhoe's snipe
                   Gallinago nemoricola Hodgson, 1836 - wood snipe
                   Gallinago nigripennis Bonaparte, 1839 - African snipe
                   Gallinago nobilis Sclater, 1856 - noble snipe
                   Gallinago solitaria Hodgson, 1831 - solitary snipe
                   Gallinago stenura (Bonaparte, 1830) - pintail snipe
                   Gallinago stricklandii (Gray, 1845) - Fuegian snipe see Gallinago stricklandi (G.R. Gray, 1845)
                   Gallinago undulata (Boddaert, 1783) - giant snipe