Phasianoidea
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- Galliformes
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- Phasianoidea
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- superfamily
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Phasianoidea is a superfamily of birds of the order of the Galliformes.
== Taxonomy == === Description === The superfamily was described in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors.
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