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Metaves ("other birds") is a
controversial group proposed by Fain &
Houde (2004) and
later rescued on the
studies of
Ericson et al. (2006) and Hackett...
- and the
sunbittern and kagu in the
taxon Metaves, but
subsequent work has
provided evidence that
Metaves is polyphyletic.
Although analyses of genome...
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Neoaves are
divisible into two clades,
Metaves and Coronaves,
although it has been
suggested from the
start that
Metaves may be
paraphyletic (Fain and Houde...
- doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501005. PMC 4730849. PMID 26824065. Mayr, G (2011). "
Metaves, Mirandornithes,
Strisores and
other novelties - a
critical review of the...
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similar wing display. They are
probably not
Gruiformes (though the
proposed Metaves are just as
weakly supported). Altogether, the two
species seem to form...
- (Charadriiformes). In the DNA-study by Fain and
Houde (2004) they were
included in the
Metaves,
together with the Columbiformes. In the
larger study by
Hackett et al...
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lineages have been proposed, such as the Mirandornithes, Cypselomorphae,
Metaves, and Coronaves.
Although groups such as the
former two (uniting a few closely...
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Jarvis et al. (2014).
Neither hypothesis supports the two
subdivisions of
Metaves and
Coronoaves as
previous studies had found. In 2020 Kuhl et al. sequenced...
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related to Procellariiformes, but
since 2004 they have been
placed in
Metaves, or in a
lineage with no
affinities with Procellariiformes, by the results...
- the
sister group of the "core
water birds", the Aequornithes, and the
Metaves hypothesis abandoned.
Family Phaethontidae Brandt 1840
Genus †Proplegadis...
