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| 'Higher Water Birds' Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - Recent
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Neornithes |
| Superorder: | 'Higher Water Birds' Hackett et al. (2008).
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Ciconiiformes Sphenisciformes Procellariiformes | |
The higher water birds is a proposed superorder based on a recent study of the bird family tree.Cuculiformes, than to other water birds. Though they have no scientiffic name for this group, the term "higher water birds" is coined due the majority of the species being aquatic and to avoid confusion with the Anseriformes, also referred to as "water birds".
Classification
| "Waterbirds" |
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Taxomony
- Superorder: Higher Water Birds
- Order: Gaviiformes
- Family: Gaviidae
- Family:
- Order: Pelecaniformes
- Family: Anhingidae
- Family: Fregatidae
- Family: Pelecanidae
- Family: Phalacrocoracidae
- Family: Sulidae
- Family: Ardeidae
- Family: Balaenicipitidae
- Family: Scopidae
- Family: Threskiornithidae
- Family:
- Order: Ciconiiformes
- Family: Ciconiidae
- Family:
- Order: Sphenisciformes
- Family: Spheniscidae
- Family:
- Order: Procellariiformes
- Family: Procellariidae
- Family: Diomedeidae
- Family: Hydrobatidae
- Family: Pelecanoididae
- Order: Gaviiformes
References
- ^ http://tolweb.org/%27Water_Birds%27/123207
- ^ A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History. Shannon J. Hackett, et al.. Science 320, 1763 (2008).