Scolopaci is a suborder of wading birds within the order Charadriiformes containing the following families:

• Family Rostratulidae – painted-snipes (3 species)

• Family Jacanidae – jacanas (8 species)

• Family Pedionomidae – plains-wanderer

• Family Thinocoridae – seedsnipes (4 species)

• Family Scolopacidae – sandpipers, snipes (98 species)

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