Family: Turnicidae
Description
The Buttonquails and the Quail-plover of the Old World.
Taxonomy
Turnicidae is a family in the order Charadriiformes, a placement supported by molecular analysis (Paton & Baker, 2006).
It was formerly placed in Gruiformes. Sibley & Ahlquist (1990) placed Turnicidae in the monotypic order Turniciformes.
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