Strisores
Appearance
Strisores | |
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Common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor (Caprimulgidae) | |
Male rufous hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus (Trochilidae) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Passerea |
Clade: | Strisores Cabanis, 1847 |
Orders | |
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Strisores[1] is a clade of birds. It includes the Caprimulgiformes and some of the Apodiformes. The relationships of these groups is not yet settled.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Whitney, William Dwight (1896), The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, vol. VII, New York: The Century Co., p. 5996
- ↑ Cracraft, Joel 2013. Avian higher‐level relationships and classification: Non-passerines. in Dickinson, Edward C; Van Remsen, James Jr. (eds) Non-passerines, The Howard and Moore complete checklist of the birds of the World, 1 (4th ed). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press, pp. xxi–xlii. ISBN 9780956861108