Otidae
| Otidae | |
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| Kori bustard ( Ardeotis kori )
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Neognathae |
| Clade: | Neoaves |
| Clade: | Passerea |
| Clade: | Otidae Wagler, 1830 |
| Subgroups | |
Otidae[1] is a clade that includes the superorders Otidimorphae (bustards, turacos, and cuckoos) and Strisores (nightbirds, swifts, and hummingbirds). It was identified in 2014 by genome analysis.[2] Earlier it was thought that Strisores was closely related to birds such as pigeons, flamingos, tropicbirds, and the sunbittern and kagu in the taxon Metaves,[3][4] but subsequent work has provided evidence that Metaves is polyphyletic.[2][5][6] Although analyses of genome data provided relatively high support for monophyly of Otidae, indicating that it occupies a basal branch of the clade Passerea,[2] other analyses of large data matrices[5][6][7] have not recovered a clade comprising Otidimorphae and Strisores, raising questions about the monophyly of Otidae.
References
- ^ "TiF Checklist: Otidimorphae". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ^ 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.
- ^ S2CID 205246158.
- ^ PMID 28369655.
- ISSN 1424-2818.
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