| Bucerotiformes Temporal range:Eocene to present | |
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| Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) (Upupidae) | |
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| Western red-billed hornbill (Tockus kempi) (Bucerotidae) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Picocoraciae |
| Order: | Bucerotiformes Fürbringer, 1888 |
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Bucerotiformes/bjuːˈsɛrətɪfɔːrmiːz/ is anorder of birds that contains thehornbills,ground hornbills,hoopoes andwood hoopoes.[1] These birds were previously classified as members ofCoraciiformes.[2][3][4] Theclade is distributed inAfrica,Asia,Europe andMelanesia.
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| Phylogenetic relationships between the families based on a large study byRichard Prum and colleagues published in 2015.[5] |
Recent genetic data show thatground hornbills andBycanistes form a clade outside the rest of the hornbill lineage.[6] They are thought to represent an early African lineage, while the rest of Bucerotiformes evolved in Asia. The hoopoe subspeciesSaint Helena hoopoe and theMadagascar subspecies are sometimes elevated to a full species. The two wood hoopoe genera,Phoeniculus andRhinopomastus, appear to have diverged about 10 million years ago, so some systematists treat them as separatesubfamilies or even separatefamilies.[7]
ExtinctMesselirrisoridae andLaurillardiidae families were both considered to bestem groups of a previously categorizedUpupiformes order prior to it being subcategorized into Bucerotiformes.[8]
Order Bucerotiformes
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