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Steatornithidae

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Steatornithidae is a family of birds comprising a single extant species, the oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) and the extinct genus Euronyctibius.

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Vinony files it under Bird families, Steatornithiformes and Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

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Instance of
monotypic taxon
Parent taxon
Steatornithiformes
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Oilbirds.jpg
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Commons category
Steatornithidae
taxon rank
family
taxon name
Steatornithidae
topic's main category
Category:Steatornithidae
taxon common name
アブラヨタカ科
taxon range
Brazil
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Steatornithidae is a family of birds comprising a single extant species, the oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) and the extinct genus Euronyctibius.

Steatornithidae is currently considered the only member of the order Steatornithiformes, however, in the past, it was classified in the order Caprimulgiformes, along with all other members of the clade Strisores. Prior to the Hackett et al. phylogeny most taxonomies circumscribed Caprimulgiformes as a paraphyletic comprising the nocturnal strisoreans.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Steatornithidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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