Editing Common ringed plover (section)

==Taxonomy==
The common ringed plover was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the current [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Charadrius hiaticula''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=150 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727057 }}</ref> Linnaeus specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as "Europa & America" but this is now restricted to Sweden.<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=247 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483060 }}</ref> The specific epithet ''hiaticula'' is late [[Medieval Latin]] for a plover.<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=hiaticula | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=hiaticula | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=13 February 2025 }}</ref>

Three [[subspecies]] are recognised:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Buttonquail, thick-knees, sheathbills, plovers, oystercatchers, stilts, painted-snipes, jacanas, Plains-wanderer, seedsnipes | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/buttonquail/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=13 February 2025 }}</ref>
* ''C. h. psammodromus'' [[Finn Salomonsen|Salomonsen]], 1930 – Arctic of North Atlantic: [[Ellesmere Island]] and [[Baffin Island]] (northeast Canada, sporadic); Greenland, Iceland, [[Faroe Islands]] and [[Svalbard]] (north of Norway)
* ''C. h. hiaticula'' [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758 – temperate east North Atlantic region: British Isles and northwest France to south Scandinavia and Baltic States
* ''C. h. tundrae'' ([[Percy Lowe|Lowe]], 1915) – Arctic Ocean coasts, islands: north Scandinavia to [[Chukchi Peninsula]] (northeast Siberia) including [[Novaya Zemlya]] and [[New Siberian Islands]] (north of northwest, northeast Russia) and [[St. Lawrence Island]] (north Bering Sea; erratic)

The subspecies ''C.&nbsp;h. psammodromus'' is poorly differentiated from the [[nominate subspecies|nominate]] and is not recognised by some ornithologists.<ref name=hbw>{{ cite book | last1=Piersma | first1=T. | last2=Wiersma | first2=P. | year=1996 | chapter=Family Charadriidae (Plovers) | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | title=Handbook of the Birds of the World | volume=3: Hoatzin to Auks | location=Barcelona, Spain | publisher=Lynx Edicions | isbn=978-84-87334-20-7 | pages=384–443 [425] | chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofbirdso0003unse/page/425/mode/1up | chapter-url-access=registration }}</ref>