Phaethoquornithes
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Phaethoquornithes is a clade of birds that contains Eurypygimorphae and Aequornithes,[4] which was first recovered by genome analysis in 2014.[5] Members of Eurypygimorphae were originally classified in the obsolete group Metaves,[clarification needed] and Aequornithes were classified as the sister taxon to Musophagiformes or Gruiformes.[6][7]
Phaethoquornithes | |
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Juvenile red-throated loon (Gavia stellata) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Clade: | Passerea |
Clade: | Phaethoquornithes Sangster et al., 2022[3] |
Subgroups | |
Synonyms | |
Ardeae |
This group has also been informally called Ardeae.[8] Older classifications have used Ardeae in a different sense, as a suborder of Ciconiiformes containing herons and related species.[9]
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Cladogram based on Kuhl et al. (2020),[2] with clade names following Sangster et al (2022).[4]