Gruae
Appearance
Gruae | |
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Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) | |
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African swamphen (Porphyrio madagascariensis) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Neognathae |
Clade: | Neoaves |
Clade: | Passerea |
Clade: | Gruae Bonaparte, 1854 |
Subgroups | |
Gruae
Gruae |
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According to Suh et al. (2016), one of the problems with the conclusions about this novel clade is that independent studies (like Jarvis et al. 2014 and Prum et al. 2015)[7][4] found very dissimilar phylogenetic relationships (like Inopinaves) using the same probabilistic support, such bootstrap scores and Bayesian posterior probabilities.[8]
See also
- Inopinaves for an alternative hypothesis on the placement of the Hoatzin
References
- ^ Mourer-Chaviré C. (1995) The Messelornithidae (Aves: Gruiformes) from the Paleogene of France. - Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, 181: 95-105
- ISBN 978-1-119-02076-9.
- ^ "TiF Checklist: GRUAE I: Opisthocomiformes & Gruiformes".
- ^ a b c 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.
- S2CID 1296408. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2013-04-07.
- ^ Hackett, S.J. et al. (2008) A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History. Science, 320(5884):1763–1768.
- ^ Suh, A. (2016) The phylogenomic forest of bird trees contains a hard polytomy at the root of Neoaves, Zool. Scripta 45(S1), 50-62.