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Phoeniculidae
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family of birds
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Phoeniculidae is a family of birds within the order Bucerotiformes. It belongs to the class Aves, phylum Chordata, and kingdom Animalia. The family is governed by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature and is commonly known as Wood Hoopoe or kakelarfamilien.
Records for this family are held by institutions including MZLU and NMV, with occurrences documented in South Africa. A total of 308,142 occurrences have been recorded. The subject is referenced by 228 other encyclopedia articles.
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Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderBucerotiformes
- FamilyPhoeniculidae
Les Phoeniculidae (ou phœniculidés en français) sont une famille d'oiseaux constituée de 2 genres et de 9 espèces existantes d'irrisors.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Phoeniculidae
- Collections
- MZLU, NMV
- Recorded in
- N/A, South Africa
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- Parent taxon
- Bucerotiformes
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- Phoeniculidae
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- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- taxon name
- Phoeniculidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Phoeniculidae
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- Phoeniculidae
- taxon common name
- kakelarfamilien
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Encyclopedic overview
The wood hoopoes or scimitarbills are a small African family, Phoeniculidae, of near passerine birds. They live south of the Sahara Desert and are not migratory. While the family is now restricted to Sub-Saharan Africa, fossil evidence shows that it once had a larger distribution. Fossils attributed to this family have been found in Miocene rocks in Germany.
The wood hoopoes are related to the kingfishers, the rollers, and the hoopoe, forming a clade with this last according to Hackett et al. (2008). A close relationship between the hoopoe and the wood hoopoes is also supported by the shared and unique nature of their stapes. The wood hoopoes most resemble the true hoopoes with their long down-curved bills and short rounded wings. According to genetic studies, the two genera, Phoeniculus and Rhinopomastus, appear to have diverged about ten million years ago, so some systematists treat them as separate subfamilies or even separate families.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phoeniculidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.