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Afroavians
Afroaves diversity
Diversity of Afroaves.
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Inopinaves
Clade: Telluraves
Clade: Afroaves
Ericson, 2012
Subclades

Afroaves is a recently defined[1] clade of birds, consisting of the kingfishers and kin (Coraciiformes), woodpeckers and kin (Piciformes), hornbills and kin (Bucerotiformes), trogons (Trogoniformes), cuckoo roller (Leptosomatiformes), mousebirds (Coliiformes), owls (Strigiformes), raptors (Accipitriformes) and New World vultures (Cathartiformes).[2] They appear to be the sister group of Australaves.[2] The most basal clades are predatory, suggesting the last common ancestor of the group was also.[3]

Afroaves
Accipitrimorphae

AccipitriformesGampsonyx swainsonii Pearl Kite



Cathartiformes (New World vultures)Black Vulture RWD2013A





Strigiformes (owls)Tyto alba -British Wildlife Centre, Surrey, England-8a


Coraciimorphae

Coliiformes (mousebirds)Colius striatus Rwanda 1


Eucavitaves

Leptosomatiformes (cuckoo roller)Leptosomus-discolor--Weltvogelpark Walsrode2008


Cavitaves

Trogoniformes (trogons)Trogon surrucura brazil


Picocoraciae

Bucerotiformes (hornbills and hoopoes)Nordlig hornkorp


Picodynastornithes

Coraciiformes (rollers and kingfishers)Halcyon smyrnensis in India (8277355382)



Piciformes (woodpeckers and toucans)Dendrocopos major -Durham, England -female-8









Cladogram of Afroaves relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014)[3] with some clade names after Yury, T. et al. (2013).[4] (Note: It differs than the one at Taxonomy in Flux).

References[]

  1. ^ Ericson, P.G. (2012). "Evolution of terrestrial birds in three continents: biogeography and parallel radiations" (PDF). Journal of Biogeography. 39 (5): 813–824. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02650.x. 
  2. ^ a b Naish, D. (2012). "Birds." Pp. 379-423 in Brett-Surman, M.K., Holtz, T.R., and Farlow, J. O. (eds.), The Complete Dinosaur (Second Edition). Indiana University Press (Bloomington & Indianapolis).
  3. ^ a b doi:10.1126/science.1253451
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  4. ^ Yuri, T. et al. (2013) Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruent and Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals. Biology, 2(1):419-444. doi:10.3390/biology2010419



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