Telluraves

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Telluraves
Temporal range:
Ma[1]
Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
European robin,
Erithacus rubecula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Neoaves
Clade: Passerea
Clade: Telluraves
Yuri et al., 2013
Clades

Telluraves (also called land birds or core landbirds) is a recently defined[2] clade of birds defined by their arboreality.[3] Based on most recent genetic studies, the clade unites a variety of bird groups, including the australavians (passerines, parrots, seriemas, and falcons) as well as the afroavians (including the Accipitrimorphae – eagles, hawks, buzzards, vultures etc. – owls and woodpeckers, among others).[4] They appear to be the sister group of the Phaethoquornithes.[5]

Given that the most basal extant members of both Afroaves (Accipitrimorphae, Strigiformes) and Australaves (Cariamiformes, Falconiformes) are carnivorous, it has been suggested that the last common ancestor of all Telluraves was probably a predator.[5] Other researchers are skeptical of this assessment, citing the herbivorous cariamiform Strigogyps as evidence to the contrary.[6]

Afroaves has not always been recovered as a monophyletic clade in subsequent studies.[7] For instance, Prum et al. (2015) recovered the accipitrimorphs as the sister group to a clade (Eutelluraves) comprising the remaining Afroavian orders and Australaves.,[8] while an analysis by Houde et al. (2019) recovered a clade of accipitrimorphs and owls as sister to the remaining landbirds.[9] Wu et al. (2024) also found recovered and found support the clade of accipitrimorphs and owls (which they have named Hieraves), but found the clade to be sister to Australaves, while Coraciimorphae is the basal most clade in Telluraves.[10]

Telluraves
Accipitrimorphae

Cathartiformes (New World vultures)

Accipitriformes (hawks and relatives)

Strigiformes (owls)

Coraciimorphae

Coliiformes
(mouse birds)

Cavitaves

Leptosomiformes
(cuckoo roller)

Trogoniformes (trogons and quetzals)

Picocoraciae
Australaves

terror birds)

Eufalconimorphae

Falconiformes (falcons)

Psittacopasserae

Psittaciformes (parrots)

Passeriformes (passerines)

Cladogram of Telluraves relationships based on Braun & Kimball (2021)[11]

References

  1. PMID 28696285
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  2. PMID 24832669
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  3. S2CID 53767029
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  4. S2CID 85599747. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2017-08-30.
  5. ^
    PMID 25504713
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  6. S2CID 84479974
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  7. PMID 32781465
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  8. ^ Prum, R.O. et al. (2015) A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature 526, 569–573.
  9. doi:10.3390/d11070108
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  10. PMC 10895254
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  11. doi:10.3390/birds2010001
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