Coraciimorphae is a
clade
A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, ...
of birds that contains the order
Coliiformes (mousebirds) and the clade
Cavitaves
Cavitaves is a clade that contain the order Leptosomiformes (cuckoo roller) and the clade Eucavitaves (a large assemblage of birds that includes woodpeckers, kingfishers and trogon
The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniforme ...
(a large assemblage of birds that includes
woodpecker
Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. ...
s,
kingfishers and
trogons).
[Naish, D. (2012). "Birds." Pp. 379-423 in Brett-Surman, M.K., Holtz, T.R., and Farlow, J. O. (eds.), ''The Complete Dinosaur (Second Edition)''. Indiana University Press (Bloomington & Indianapolis).] The name however was coined in the 1990s by
Sibley and Ahlquist based on their
DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. However their Coraciimorphae only contains
Trogoniformes and
Coraciiformes
The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colourful birds including the kingfishers, the bee-eaters, the rollers, the motmots, and the todies. They generally have syndactyly, with three forward-pointing toes (and toes 3 & 4 fused at their base) ...
.
Taxonomy
Cladogram of Coraciimorphae relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. ''et al.'' (2014)
with some clade names after Yuri, T. ''et al.'' (2013).
References
Neognathae
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