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list of families

This is a list of families that contains a list of families used in scientific classification.


Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Class Aves

Order Accipitriformes

  • Family Accipitridae: hawks, eagles, buzzards, Old World vultures, and allies
  • Family Cathartidae: New World vultures
  • Family Pandionidae: Osprey
  • Family Sagittaridae: Secretary Bird

Order Anseriformes

  • Family Anhimidae: screamers
  • Family Anseranatidae: magpie-geese
  • Family Anatidae: ducks, geese, and swans
  • Family Dromornithidae (extinct)
  • Family Presbyornithidae (extinct)

Order Apodiformes

Order Archaeopterygiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Archaeopterygidae (fossil)

Order Caprimulgiformes

  • Family Aegothelidae (owlet-nightjars, 9 species in one genus)
  • Family Caprimulgidae
  • Family Nyctibiidae (Potoos, about 5 species in 1 genus)
  • Family Podargidae (frogmouths, 12 species in 2 genera)
  • Family Steatornithidae (Oilbird)

Order Charadriiformes

  • Family Alcidae: puffins, guillemots, murres, and allies
  • Family Burhinidae: thick-knees
  • Family Charadriidae: plovers and lapwings
  • Family Chionididae: sheathbills
  • Family Dromadidae: Crab Plover
  • Family Glareolidae: pratincoles and coursers
  • Family Haematopodidae: oystercatchers
  • Family Ibidorhynchidae: Ibisbill
  • Family Jacanidae: jacanas
  • Family Laridae: gulls
  • Family Pedionomidae: Plains Wanderer
  • Family Pluvianellidae: Magellanic Plover
  • Family Recurvirostridae: avocets
  • Family Rhynchopidae: skimmers
  • Family Rostratulidae: painted snipe
  • Family Scolopacidae: snipe, sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies
  • Family Stercorariidae: skuas
  • Family Sternidae: terns
  • Family Thinocoridae: seedsnipe
  • Family Turnicidae: buttonquails

Order Ciconiiformes

Order Coliiformes

Order Columbiformes

  • Family Columbidae pigeons and doves
  • Family Raphidae (extinct) dodos

Order Confuciusornithiformes

Extinct.

Order Coraciiformes

  • Family Alcedinidae (river kingfishers)
  • Family Brachypteraciidae (ground rollers)
  • Family Bucerotidae (hornbills)
  • Family Cerylidae (water or belted kingfishers)
  • Family Coraciidae (rollers)
  • Family Eocoraciidae (fossil)
  • Family Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers)
  • Family Leptosomatidae (Cuckoo Roller)
  • Family Meropidae (bee-eaters)
  • Family Messelirrisoridae (fossil)
  • Family Momotidae (motmots)
  • Family Phoeniculidae (woodhoopoes)
  • Family Primobucconidae (fossil)
  • Family Todidae (todies)
  • Family Upupidae (Hoopoe)

Order Cuculiformes

  • Family Cuculidae: cuckoos
  • Family Musophagidae: turacos and allies
  • Family Opisthocomidae: Hoatzin

Subclass Enantiornithes

Extinct.

Order Falconiformes

Order Galliformes

  • Family Cracidae: chachalacas, guans and curassows
  • Family Megapodiidae: mound-builders
  • Family Meleagrididae: turkeys
  • Family Mesitornithidae: mesites (may actually be more closely related to gruiform birds
  • Family Numididae: guineafowl
  • Family Odontophoridae: New World quail
  • Family Phasianidae: junglefowl (including the wild form of the domestic chicken), partridges, pheasants, quail, and allies.
  • Family Tetraonidae: grouse

Order Gaviiformes

Order Gruiformes

  • Family Aptornithidae: adzebills (prehistoric)
  • Family Aramidae: Limpkin
  • Family Cariamidae: seriemas
  • Family Eurypygidae: Sunbittern
  • Family Gastornithidae: diatrymas (fossil)
  • Family Gruidae: cranes
  • Family Heliornithidae: finfoots and Sungrebe
  • Family Otididae: bustards
  • Family Phorusrhacidae: terror birds (fossil)
  • Family Psophiidae: trumpeters
  • Family Rallidae: crakes and rails
  • Family Rhynochetidae: Kagu

Order Hesperornithiformes

Extinct.

Order Ichthyornithiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Ichthyornithidae (fossil)

Order Jeholornithiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Jeholornithidae (fossil)

Order Omnivoropterygiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Omnivoropterygidae (fossil)

Order Passeriformes

  • Family Acanthisittidae: New Zealand wrens
  • Family Aegithalidae: long-tailed tits
  • Family Aegithinidae: ioras
  • Family Alaudidae: larks
  • Family Artamidae: wood swallows, butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian Magpie
  • Family Atrichornithidae: scrub birds
  • Family Bombycillidae: waxwings and allies
  • Family Callaeidae: New Zealand wattlebirds
  • Family Campephagidae: cuckoo shrikes and trillers
  • Family Cardinalidae: cardinals
  • Family Certhiidae: treecreepers
  • Family Chloropseidae: leafbirds
  • Family Cinclidae: dippers
  • Family Cinclosomatidae: whipbirds and allies
  • Family Cisticolidae: cisticolas and allies
  • Family Climacteridae: Australian treecreepers
  • Family Coerebidae: Bananaquit
  • Family Conopophagidae: gnateaters
  • Family Corcoracidae: White-winged Chough and Apostlebird
  • Family Corvidae: crows, ravens and jays
  • Family Cotingidae: cotingas
  • Family Dicaeidae: flowerpeckers
  • Family Dicruridae: monarch flycatchers and allies
  • Family Drepanididae: Hawaiian honeycreepers
  • Family Emberizidae: buntings and American sparrows
  • Family Estrildidae: estrildid finches (waxbills, munias, etc)
  • Family Eurylaimidae: broadbills
  • Family Formicariidae: antpittas and antthrushes
  • Family Fringillidae: true finches
  • Family Furnariidae: ovenbirds and woodcreepers
  • Family Hirundinidae: swallows and martins
  • Family Hypocoliidae: Hypocolius
  • Family Icteridae: grackles, New World blackbirds, and New World orioles
  • Family Irenidae: fairy-bluebirds
  • Family Laniidae: shrikes
  • Family Menuridae: lyrebirds
  • Family Malaconotidae: puffback shrikes, bush shrikes, tchagras and boubous
  • Family Maluridae: fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens
  • Family Melanocharitidae: berrypeckers and longbills
  • Family Meliphagidae: honeyeaters and chats
  • Family Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers
  • Family Motacillidae: wagtails and pipits
  • Family Muscicapidae: Old World flycatchers and chats
  • Family Nectariniidae: sunbirds
  • Family Neosittidae: sittellas
  • Family Oriolidae: orioles and Figbird
  • Family Orthonychidae: logrunners
  • Family Pachycephalidae: whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis and allies
  • Family Dulidae: palmchat
  • Family Paradisaeidae: birds of paradise
  • Family Paradoxornithidae: Parrotbills
  • Family Paramythiidae: tit berrypecker and crested berrypeckers
  • Family Pardalotidae: pardalotes, scrubwrens, thornbills, and gerygones
  • Family Paridae: tits, chickadees and titmice
  • Family Parulidae: New World warblers
  • Family Petroicidae: Australian robins
  • Family Peucedramidae: Olive Warbler
  • Family Philepittidae: asities
  • Family Picathartidae: rockfowl
  • Family Pipridae: manakins
  • Family Pittidae: pittas
  • Family Platysteiridae: wattle-eyes or puffback flycatchers
  • Family Ploceidae: weavers
  • Family Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers
  • Family Pomatostomidae: Australasian babblers
  • Family Prionopidae: helmetshrikes.
  • Family Promeropidae: sugarbirds
  • Family Prunellidae: accentor
  • Family Ptilogonatidae: silky flycatchers
  • Family Ptilonorhynchidae: bowerbirds
  • Family Pycnonotidae: bulbuls
  • Family Regulidae: kinglets
  • Family Remizidae: penduline tits
  • Family Rhabdornithidae: Philippine creepers
  • Family Rhinocryptidae: tapaculos
  • Family Sittidae: nuthatches
  • Family Passeridae: true sparrows
  • Family Sturnidae: starlings
  • Family Sylviidae: Old World warblers
  • Family Thamnophilidae: antbirds
  • Family Thraupidae: tanagers and allies
  • Family Timaliidae: babblers
  • Family Troglodytidae: wrens
  • Family Turdidae: thrushes and allies
  • Family Turnagridae: Piopio
  • Family Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers
  • Family Vangidae: vangas
  • Family Vireonidae: vireos
  • Family Zosteropidae: White-eyes

Order Pelecaniformes

  • Family Anhingidae: darters
  • Family Fregatidae: frigatebirds
  • Family Pelecanidae: pelicans
  • Family Pelagornithidae: pseudotooth birds
  • Family Phalacrocoracidae: cormorants and shags
  • Family Protoplotidae (extinct)
  • Family Sulidae: gannets and boobies

Order Phoenicopteriformes

  • Family Phoenicopteridae: flamingoes

Order Piciformes

  • Family Bucconidae (puffbirds, nunbirds and nunlets: some 30 species)
  • Family Capitonidae (barbets: about 80 species)
  • Family Galbulidae (jacamars: 18 species)
  • Family Indicatoridae (honeyguides: 17 species)
  • Family Miopiconidae (fossil)
  • Family Picidae (woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks: over 200 species)
  • Family Primoscenidae (fossil)
  • Family Ramphastidae (toucans: about 40 species)

Order Podicipediformes

  • Family Podicipedidae: grebes

Order Procellariiformes

Order Psittaciformes

  • Family Cacatuidae: cockatoos
  • Family Psittacidae: parrots

Order Pteroclidiformes

  • Family Pteroclididae: sandgrouse

Order Sphenisciformes

Order Strigiformes

  • Family Strigidae: typical owls
  • Family Tytonidae: barn owls

Order Struthioniformes

  • Family Aepyornithidae (elephant birds; extinct)
  • Family Apterygidae (kiwis)
  • Family Casuariidae (emus etc.)
  • Family Dinornithidae (moa; extinct)
  • Family Rheidae (rheas)
  • Family Struthionidae (ostriches)

Order Tinamiformes

  • Family Tinamidae: tinamous

Order Trochiliformes

Order Trogoniformes

  • Family Trogonidae: trogons and quetzals

Order Turniciformes

Order Yanornithiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Yanornithidae (fossil)

Class Mammalia

Order Artiodactyla

Order Carnivora

  •  ?Family Prionodontidae: Asiatic linsangs
  • Family Ailuridae: red panda; 1 species in 1 genus.
  • Family Amphicyonidae: beardogs (extinct)
  • Family Canidae: dogs and allies; 37 species in 10 genera
  • Family Eupleridae : Malagasy carnivores; 8 species in 7 genera
  • Family Felidae: cats; 37 species in 18 genera
  • Family Herpestidae: mongooses and allies; 30 species in 13 genera
  • Family Hyaenidae: hyenas and aardwolf; 4 species in 4 genera
  • Family Mephitidae: skunks and stink badgers; 10 species in 3 genera
  • Family Mustelidae: weasels, martens, badgers, and otters; 55 species in 24 genera
  • Family Nandiniidae: African palm civets; 1 species in 1 genus
  • Family Nimravidae: false sabre-tooths (extinct)
  • Family Odobenidae: walruses; 1 species in 1 genus
  • Family Otariidae: sea lions, eared seals, fur seals; 14 species in 7 genera
  • Family Phocidae: true seals; 19 species in 9 genera
  • Family Procyonidae: raccoons and allies; 19 species in 6 genera
  • Family Ursidae: bears; 8 species in 4 genera
  • Family Viverridae: civets and allies; 32 species in 17 genera

Order Cetacea

Order Chiroptera

Order Dasyuromorphia

  • Family Dasyuridae (72 species in 20 genera)
  • Family Myrmecobiidae
  • Family Thylacinidae

Order Dermoptera

  • Family Cynocephalidae

Order Didelphimorphia

  • Family Didelphidae

Order Diprotodontia

  • Family ?Galanaria (extinct)
  • Family ?Ganguroo (extinct)
  • Family Acrobatidae: (Feathertail Glider and Feathertail opossum)
  • Family Diprotodontidae (extinct)
  • Family Hypsiprymnodontidae: Musky Rat-kangaroo
  • Family Ilariidae (extinct)
  • Family Macropodidae: kangaroos, wallabies and allies
  • Family Palorchestidae (extinct)
  • Family Petauridae (Striped Possum, Leadbeater's Possum, Yellow-bellied Glider, Sugar Glider, Mahogany Glider, Squirrel Glider)
  • Family Phascolarctidae: Koala (1 species)
  • Family Potoroidae: bettongs, potaroos and rat kangaroos
  • Family Tarsipedidae: Honey possum
  • Family Thylacoleonidae (Marsupial Lion; extinct)
  • Family Vombatidae: wombats (3 species)
  • Family Wynyardiidae (extinct)
  • Family Burramyidae: pygmy possums
  • Family Phalangeridae: brushtail possums and cuscuses
  • Family Pseudocheiridae: ringtailed possums and allies

Order Hyracoidea

Order Insectivora

  • Family Erinaceidae
  • Family Soricidae
  • Family Talpidae
  • Family Solenodontidae: solenodons
  • Family Nesophontidae: extinct West Indian shrews

Order Lagomorpha

  • Family Ochotonidae: pikas
  • Family Prolagidae (extinct)
  • Family Leporidae: rabbits and hares

Order Macroscelidea

  • Family Macroscelididae

Order Microbiotheria

  • Family Microbiotheriidae

Order Monotremata

Order Notoryctemorphia

Order Paucituberculata

Order Peramelemorphia

  • Family Thylacomyidae: (bilbies, 1 extant species, 1 extinct)
  • Family Chaeropodidae: (Pig-footed Bandicoot, 1 extinct species)
  • Family Peramelidae: (bandicoots, 20 extant species, 1 extinct)
  • Family Yaralidae: (2 described fossil species)

Order Perissodactyla

  • Family Equidae: horses and allies, about 9 species in one genus
  • Family Tapiridae: tapirs, 4 species in one genus
  • Family Rhinocerotidae: rhinoceroses, 5 species in 4 genera

Order Pholidota

  • Family Epoicotheriidae (extinct)
  • Family Manidae
  • Family Metacheiromyidae (extinct)

Order Primates

  • Family Aotidae: night or owl monkeys (douroucoulis) (8 species)
  • Family Atelidae: howler, spider and woolly monkeys (24 species)
  • Family Daubentoniidae: Aye-aye (1 species)
  • Family Cebidae: marmosets, tamarins, capuchins and squirrel monkeys (56 species)
  • Family Cheirogaleidae: dwarf lemurs and mouse-lemurs (24 species)
  • Family Galagidae: galagos (19 species)
  • Family Hominidae: humans and other great apes (7 species)
  • Family Hylobatidae: gibbons or "lesser apes" (13 species)
  • Family Indriidae: woolly lemurs and allies (12 species)
  • Family Lemuridae: lemurs (19 species)
  • Family Lepilemuridae: sportive lemurs (11 species)
  • Family Lorisidae: lorises, pottos and allies (9 species)
  • Family Cercopithecidae: Old World monkeys (135 species)
  • Family Pitheciidae: titis, sakis and uakaris (41 species)
  • Family Tarsiidae: tarsiers (7 species)

Order Proboscidea

Order Rodentia

  • Family Abrocomidae: chinchilla rats
  • Family Anomaluridae: scaly-tailed squirrels
  • Family Aplodontiidae: mountain beaver
  • Family Bathyergidae: African mole rats
  • Family Calomyscidae: mouse-like hamsters
  • Family Capromyidae: hutias
  • Family Castoridae: beavers
  • Family Caviidae: cavies, including guinea pigs
  • Family Chinchillidae: chinchillas and viscachas
  • Family Cricetidae: hamsters, New World rats and mice, voles
  • Family Ctenodactylidae: gundis
  • Family Ctenomyidae: tuco-tucos
  • Family Dasyproctidae: agoutis
  • Family incertae sedis Diatomyidae: Laotian rock rat
  • Family Dinomyidae: pacaranas
  • Family Dipodidae: jerboas and jumping mice
  • Family Echimyidae: spiny rats
  • Family Erethizontidae: New World porcupines
  • Family Geomyidae: pocket gophers (true gophers)
  • Family Gliridae (also Myoxidae, Muscardinidae): dormice
  • Family ?Heptaxodontidae: giant hutias
  • Family Heteromyidae: kangaroo rats and kangaroo mice
  • Family Hydrochoeridae: Capybara
  • Family Hystricidae: Old World porcupines
  • Family Muridae: true mice and rats, gerbils, spiny mice, crested rat
  • Family Myocastoridae: nutria
  • Family Nesomyidae: climbing mice, rock mice, white-tailed rat, Malagasy rats and mice
  • Family Octodontidae: octodonts
  • Family Pedetidae: springhares
  • Family Petromuridae: dassie rat
  • Family Platacanthomyidae: spiny dormice
  • Family Sciuridae: squirrels, including chipmunks & prairie dogs
  • Family Spalacidae: mole rats, bamboo rats, and zokors
  • Family Thryonomyidae: cane rats

Order Scandentia

  • Family Ptilocercidae
  • Family Tupaiidae

Order Sirenia

  • Family Dugongidae
  • Family Prorastomidae (extinct)
  • Family Protosirenidae (extinct)
  • Family Trichechidae

Order Tubulidentata

Order Xenarthra

  • Family Myrmecophagidae: anteaters
  • Family Bradypodidae: three-toed sloths
  • Family Megalonychidae: two-toed sloths
  • Family Megatheriidae (extinct)
  • Family Mylodontidae (extinct)
  • Family Pampatheriidae: giant armadillos (extinct)
  • Family Glyptodontidae (extinct)
  • Family Dasypodidae: armadillos

Class Sauropsida

  • Family Bolosauridae (Extinct)
  • Family Coelurosauravidae (Extinct)
  • Family Drepanosauridae (Extinct)
  • Family Longisquamidae (Extinct)
  • Family Mesosauridae (Extinct)
  • Family Millerettidae (Extinct)
  • Family Weigeltisauridae (Extinct)

Order Procolophonomorpha

Order Testudines

  • Family Adocidae: (extinct)
  • Family Araripemydidae: (extinct)
  • Family Bothremydidae: (extinct)
  • Family Captorhinidae (Extinct)
  • Family Carettochelyidae: (Pignose Turtles)
  • Family Chelidae: (Austro-American Sideneck Turtles)
  • Family Cheloniidae: (Green Sea Turtles and relatives)
  • Family Chelydridae: (Snapping Turtles)
  • Family Dermatemydidae: (River Turtles)
  • Family Emydidae: (Pond Turtles/Box and Water Turtles)
  • Family Geoemydidae: (Asian River Turtles, Leaf and Roofed Turtles, Asian Box Turtles)
  • Family Haichemydidae: (extinct)
  • Family Kinosternidae: (Mud and Musk Turtles)
  • Family Dermochelyidae: (Leatherback Turtles)
  • Family Lindholmemydidae: (extinct)
  • Family Meiolaniidae: (Horned turtle, extinct)
  • Family Pelomedusidae: (Afro-American Sideneck Turtles)
  • Family Platysternidae: (Big-headed Turtles)
  • Family Podocnemididae: (Madagascan Big-headed and American Sideneck River Turtles)
  • Family Proterochersidae: (extinct)
  • Family Protorothyrididae (Extinct)
  • Family Protostegidae: (extinct)
  • Family Sinochelyidae: (extinct)
  • Family Testudinidae: (Tortoises)
  • Family Thalassemyidae: (extinct)
  • Family Toxochelyidae: (extinct)
  • Family Trionychidae: (Softshell Turtles)

Order Araeoscelidia

Extinct.

  • Family Araeoscelidae
  • Family Petrolacosauridae

Order Younginiformes

Extinct.

  • Family Younginidae

Order Placodontia

Extinct.

  • Family Cyamodontidae
  • Family Henodontidae
  • Family Paraplacodontidae
  • Family Placochelyidae
  • Family Placodontidae

Order Nothosauria

Extinct.

  • Family Pachypleurosauridae
  • Family Simosauridae
  • Family Germanosauridae
  • Family Nothosauridae

Order Plesiosauria

Extinct.

Order Sphenodontia

Order Squamata

  • Family Acrochordidae
  • Family Adamisauridae (extinct)
  • Family Agamidae (agamas)
  • Family Amphisbaenidae
  • Family Anguidae (glass lizards)
  • Family Aniliidae
  • Family Anniellidae (American legless lizards)
  • Family Anomalepididae
  • Family Anomochilidae
  • Family Arretosauridae (extinct)
  • Family Cylindrophiidae
  • Family Atractaspididae
  • Family Bavarisauridae (extinct)
  • Family Bipedidae
  • Family Boidae
  • Family Chamaeleonidae (chameleons)
  • Family Colubridae
  • Family Cordylidae (spinytail lizards)
  • Family Corytophanidae (casquehead lizards)
  • Family Crotaphytidae (collared and leopard lizards)
  • Family Dibamidae (blind lizards)
  • Family Tropidophiidae
  • Family Eichstaettisauridae (extinct)
  • Family Elapidae
  • Family Euposauridae (extinct)
  • Family Gekkonidae (geckos)
  • Family Gerrhosauridae (plated lizards)
  • Family Gymnophthalmidae (spectacled lizards)
  • Family Helodermatidae (gila monsters)
  • Family Hoplocercidae (wood lizards, clubtails)
  • Family Hydrophiidae
  • Family Iguanidae (iguanas and spinytail iguanas)
  • Family Isodontosauridae (extinct)
  • Family Lacertidae (wall lizards or true lizards)
  • Family Lanthanotidae (earless monitor lizards)
  • Family Leiocephalidae (see Tropidurinae)
  • Family Leiosauridae (see Polychrotinae)
  • Family Leptotyphlopidae
  • Family Liolaemidae (see Tropidurinae)
  • Family Loxocemidae
  • Family Mongolochamopidae (extinct)
  • Family Mosasauridae (marine lizards; extinct)
  • Family Opluridae (Madagascar iguanids)
  • Family Paramacellodidae (extinct)
  • Family Phrynosomatidae (earless, spiny, tree, side-blotched and horned lizards)
  • Family Polychrotidae (anoles)
  • Family Priscagamidae (extinct)
  • Family Pygopodidae (legless lizards)
  • Family Pythonidae
  • Family Bolyeriidae
  • Family Scincidae (skinks)
  • Family Slavoiidae (extinct)
  • Family Teiidae (tegus and whiptails)
  • Family Trogonophidae
  • Family Tropiduridae (neotropical ground lizards)
  • Family Typhlopidae
  • Family Uropeltidae
  • Family Varanidae (monitor lizards)
  • Family Viperidae
  • Family Xantusiidae (night lizards)
  • Family Xenopeltidae
  • Family Xenosauridae (knob-scaled lizards)

Order Choristodera

Extinct.

Order Prolacertiformes

Extinct.

Unranked Archosauriformes

Extinct.

  • Family Stagonolepididae
  • Family Erythrosuchidae
  • Family Euparkeriidae
  • Family Gobisuchidae
  • Family Hsisosuchidae
  • Family Lagosuchidae
  • Family Notosuchidae
  • Family Ornithosuchidae
  • Family Phytosauridae
  • Family Poposauridae
  • Family Prestosuchidae
  • Family Proterosuchidae
  • Family Rauisuchidae
  • Family Saltoposuchidae
  • Family Silesauridae
  • Family Sphenosuchidae

Order Crocodylia

Order Pterosauria

Extinct.

  • Family Anurognathidae
  • Family Azhdarchidae
  • Family Campylognathoididae
  • Family Chenochasmatidae
  • Family Dimorphodontidae
  • Family Dsungaripteridae
  • Family Germanodactilidae
  • Family Nyctosauridae
  • Family Ornithocheiridae
  • Family Ornithodesmidae
  • Family Pteranodontidae
  • Family Pterodactylidae
  • Family Rhamphorhynchidae
  • Family Tapejaridae

Order Saurischia

Extinct.

Order Ornithischia

Extinct.


 
 
 

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