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Ramphastides
Sign in to saveRamphastides is an infraorder of the order Piciformes that includes toucans and barbets. Formerly, the barbets have been classified in a single family, the Capitonidae. However, this has turned out to be paraphyletic about toucans, which resulted in the Capitonidae being split into several families.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Ramphastides is referenced by 174 other articles, and connects out to toucan, Animalia and bird.
It sits within the topics Neognathae, Pici (taxon) and Taxa named by Nicholas Aylward Vigors.
Its subject is documented across 11 Wikipedia language editions.
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Ramphastides is an infraorder of the order Piciformes that includes toucans and barbets. Formerly, the barbets have been classified in a single family, the Capitonidae. However, this has turned out to be paraphyletic about toucans, which resulted in the Capitonidae being split into several families.
==Systematics== The Ramphastides contain five extant families. Sometimes, they are treated as the superfamily Ramphastoidea. Infraorder Ramphastides Megalaimidae - Asian barbets Lybiidae - African barbets Capitonidae - New World barbets Semnornithidae - toucan-barbets Ramphastidae - toucans
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ramphastides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.