Piciformes

Translingual

Etymology

Picus +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Piciformes

A taxonomic order within the subclass Neognathae – the 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 - barbate, Indicatoridae - honeyguides, Ramphastidae - toucans, Picidae - woodpeckers etc, Lybiidae, Semnornithidae - families in Pici

References

Piciformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Piciformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Piciformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Piciformes at Aves Taxonomy in flux
Piciformes on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Piciformes at the Tree of Life Web Project
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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