Scolopacidae

Translingual

Scolopax rusticola (Scolopacidae) dining

Etymology

Scolopax +‎ -idae

Proper noun

Scolopacidae

1. A taxonomic family within the order Charadriiformes – sandpipers and snipes.

Hypernyms

• (family): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Charadriiformes - order; Charadrii - suborder

Hyponyms

• (family): Numeninae, Limosinae, Arenariinae, Tringinae, Scolopacinae - subfamilies
  • Bartramia, Numenius; Limosa; Arenaria, Prosobonia, Calidris; Xenus, Phalaropus, Actitis, Tringa; Limnodromus, Lymnocryptes, Scolopax, Chubbia, Coenocorypha, Gallinago - genera currently assigned to subfamilies of Scolopacidae
  • Aphriza, Eurynorhynchus, Tryngites, Limicola, Micropalama, Philomachus (now in Calidris), Catoptrophorus, Heteroscelus (now in Tringa), Steganopus (now in Phalaropus) - reassigned genera

Translations

taxonomic family within suborder Charadrii

• Catalan: escolopàcids m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鷸科／鹬科 (yùkē)

• English: scolopacids pl
• Faroese: snípur f pl
• Finnish: kurpat (fi) pl
• German: Schnepfenvögel pl

References

• Scolopacidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scolopacidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Scolopacidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Scolopacidae at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Scolopacidae at Paleobiology Database