Bucerotiformes

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Order of birds

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::summary Order of birds ::

|fossil_range = Eocene to present |image = Common Hoopoe (Upupa epops) Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg |image_caption = Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) (Upupidae) |image2 = Western red-billed hornbill (Tockus kempi) male.jpg |image2_caption = Western red-billed hornbill (Tockus kempi) (Bucerotidae) |taxon = Bucerotiformes |authority = Fürbringer, 1888 |subdivision_ranks = Families |subdivision =

Bucerotiformes is an order of birds that contains the hornbills, ground hornbills, hoopoes and wood hoopoes. These birds were previously classified as members of Coraciiformes. The clade is distributed in Africa, Asia, Europe and Melanesia.

|caption=Phylogenetic relationships between the families based on a large study by Richard Prum and colleagues published in 2015. |align=right |cladogram={{Cladex| style=font-size:80%;line-height:75%;width:350px; |label1=Bucerotiformes |1={{clade |1=Bucerotidae – hornbills and ground hornbills |2={{clade |1=Upupidae – hoopoes |2=Phoeniculidae – wood hoopoes

Systematics

Recent genetic data show that ground hornbills and Bycanistes form a clade outside the rest of the hornbill lineage. They are thought to represent an early African lineage, while the rest of Bucerotiformes evolved in Asia. The hoopoe subspecies Saint Helena hoopoe and the Madagascar subspecies are sometimes elevated to a full species. The two wood hoopoe genera, Phoeniculus and Rhinopomastus, appear to have diverged about 10 million years ago, so some systematists treat them as separate subfamilies or even separate families.

Extinct Messelirrisoridae and Laurillardiidae families were both considered to be stem groups of a previously categorized Upupiformes order prior to it being subcategorized into Bucerotiformes.

Taxonomy

Order Bucerotiformes

References

References

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  6. Woodruff, D. S. & Srikwan, S. 2011. Molecular genetics and the conservation of hornbills in fragmented landscapes. In Poonswad, P. (ed) The Asian Hornbills: Ecology and Conservation. National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Bangkok, pp. 257–264.
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