Piciformes

Translingual

Etymology

Picus +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Piciformes

A taxonomic order within the subclass Aves – woodpeckers, barbets, toucans, jacamars, puffbirds and honeyguides etc.

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): Galbulae, Pici
- Galbulidae (jacamars), Bucconidae (puffbirds etc) - families in Galbulae; Capitonidae (barbets), Indicatoridae (honeyguides), Ramphastidae (toucans), Picidae (woodpeckers etc), Lybiidae (African barbets), Semnornithidae (prong-billed barbets and toucan barbets) - families in Pici

References

Piciformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Piciformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Piciformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Piciformes at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
Piciformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Piciformes at Encyclopedia of Life
Piciformes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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