Bucerotiformes

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Bucerotiformes
Temporal range: Eocene to present
Eurasian Hoopoe
(Upupa epops)
(Upupidae)
Western red-billed hornbill (Tockus kempi)
(Bucerotidae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Picocoraciae
Order: Bucerotiformes
Fürbringer, 1888
Families
  • Phoeniculidae
  • Upupidae
  • Bucorvidae
  • Bucerotidae

Bucerotiformes /bjˈsɛrətɪfɔːrmz/ is an order of birds that contains the hornbills, ground hornbills, hoopoes and wood hoopoes.[1] These birds were previously classified as members of Coraciiformes.[2][3][4] The clade is distributed in Africa, Asia, Europe and Melanesia.

Bucerotiformes 

Upupidae
– hoopoes

Phoeniculidae
– wood hoopoes

Bucorvidae
– ground hornbills

Bucerotidae
– hornbills

Phylogenetic relationships between the families based on a large study by Richard Prum and colleagues published in 2015.[5]

Systematics

Recent genetic data show that

Rhinopomastus, appear to have diverged about 10 million years ago, so some systematists treat them as separate subfamilies or even separate families.[7]

Extinct

Upupiformes order prior to it being subcategorized into Bucerotiformes.[8]

Taxonomy

Order Bucerotiformes

References

  1. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  2. . Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014) Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science, 346(6215):1320-1331.
  5. S2CID 205246158
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  6. ^ Woodruff, D. S. & Srikwan, S. 2011. Molecular genetics and the conservation of hornbills in fragmented landscapes. In Poonswad, P. (ed) The Asian Hornbills: Ecology and Conservation. National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Bangkok, pp. 257-264.
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