| Threskiornithidae Temporal range:
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| Scarlet ibis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Pelecaniformes |
| Suborder: | Ardei |
| Family: | Threskiornithidae Poche, 1904[1][2] |
| Subfamilies | |
The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large wading birds. The family has been traditionally classified into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills; however recent genetic studies have cast doubt on this arrangement, and have found the spoonbills to be nested within the Old World ibises, and the New World ibises as an early offshoot.
- ^ Poche, von Franz (1904). "Ein bisher nicht berücksichtigtes zoologisches Werk aus dem Jahre 1758, in dem die Grundsätze der binären Nomenklatur befolgt sind". Zoologischer Anzeiger (in German). 27: 495-510 [498].
- ^ Commission of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (1992). "Opinion 1674. Threskiornithidae Poche, 1904 (Aves, Ciconiiformes): given precedence over Plataleidae Bonaparte, 1838 and Eudocimidae Bonaparte, 1854". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 49 (1): 97–99.
- ^ Myers, P. R.; C. S. Parr; T. Jones; G. S. Hammond; T. A. Dewey. "Family Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills)". Animal Diversity Web. University of Michigan. Retrieved 9 September 2009.