Suliformes

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Suliformes
Temporal range:
Ma
Northern gannet (Morus bassanus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Aequornithes
Order: Suliformes
Sharpe, 1891
Type species
Sula leucogaster
, 1783
Families

The order Suliformes (

Ciconiiformes
(storks).

Systematics and evolution

Of the families in Pelecaniformes, only

waterbird superorder has been suggested.[4]

In their landmark 2008 work Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds, Australian ornithologists Les Christidis and Walter E. Boles coined the name Phalacrocoraciformes for the group due to the much greater number of species of cormorants (

Phalacrocoracidae) over boobies and gannets (Sulidae).[5]
However, this has not been taken up elsewhere.

In 1994, American ornithologist Walter J. Bock wrote that the name Suloidea had been used consistently as a term for a superfamily containing the two families, so therefore "Sulidae" and not "Phalacrocoracidae" should take priority in any arrangement containing the two genera.[6]

In 2010, the AOU adopted the term Suliformes for the taxon.[7] The IOC followed in 2011.[8]

In 1994, Martyn Kennedy and colleagues constructed a behavioural data set, with the resulting tree showing a high level of congruence with existing phylogenies based on genetics or morphology. It showed the darters as sister group to the cormorants and shags, with the gannets and boobies, then pelicans, then frigatebirds and lastly tropicbirds as progressively earlier offshoots.[9]

Suliformes

Fregatidae

Sulidae

Anhingidae

Phalacrocoracidae

Cladogram based on Gibb, G.C. et al. (2013)[10]

Species

Bones of the left foot of Fregata aquila showing pectinate edge to mid claw,[11] a characteristic of the Suliformes.[12]
Little cormorant Microcarbo niger

References

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. Retrieved 2012-03-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  5. ISBN 978-0-643-06511-6
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  6. ^ Bock, Walter J. (1994). "History and nomenclature of avian family-group names". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 222: 1–281 [166–67]. If Sula and Phalacrocorax are included in the same family-level taxon (e.g. superfamily), then Sulidae Reichenbach, 1849 (1836) (Sula Brisson, 1760) has priority in preference to Phalacrocoracidae Reichenbach, 1849-50 (1836) (Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760), because the name Suloidea has been consistently used in avian classification as a superfamily name. Phalacrocoracidae Reichenbach, 1849-50 (1836) can still be used for any taxon containing Phalacrocorax but not Sula.
  7. S2CID 198156876.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  8. ^ "Taxonomy Version 2". IOC World Bird List: Version 3.1. 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
  9. S2CID 53202305
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  10. PMID 23562800
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  11. S2CID 247004114
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  12. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.2007.00433.x
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