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| Greater rhea,Rhea americana | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Clade: | Notopalaeognathae |
| Order: | Rheiformes |
| Family: | Rheidae Bonaparte, 1853[1] |
| Type species | |
| Rhea americana | |
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Rheidae/ˈriːɪdiː/ is afamily of flightlessratite birds which first appeared in thePaleocene.[2] It is today represented by the sole livinggenusRhea, but also contains several extinct genera.[3]
Order Rheiformes(Forbes, 1884) Furbringer, 1888 [RheimorphaeBonaparte, 1849; RheaeForbes 1884][4][5][6][7][8]
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