Cuculiformes

Translingual

Etymology

Cuculus +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Cuculiformes

A taxonomic order within the subclass Aves – turacos and cuckoos (hoatzins sometimes included).

Hypernyms

(order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder

Hyponyms

(order): Cuculidae (cuckoos) - sole family in Cuculiformes sensu stricto; Opisthocomidae (hoatzin) - additional family included in Cuciliformes sensu lato

References

Cuculiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cuculiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Cuculiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Cuculiformes at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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