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- The Phaethontiformes /ˌfeɪ.ɪˈθɒntɪfɔːrmiːz/ are an order of birds. They contain one extant family, the tropicbirds (Phaethontidae), and one extinct family...
- pelagic seabirds. They are the sole living representatives of the order Phaethontiformes. For many years they were considered part of the Pelecaniformes, but...
- Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) Eurypygiformes (sunbittern and kagu)...
- related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It is found in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans...
- Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) Eurypygiformes (sunbittern and kagu)...
- sunbittern (Eurypygiformes) and the three species of tropicbirds (Phaethontiformes) together styled as the Eurypygimorphae are the closest sister group...
- The largest extant species of bird measured by m**** is the common ostrich (Struthio camelus), closely followed by the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes)...
- or Phaethontimorphae is a clade of birds that contains the orders Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) and Eurypygiformes (kagu and sunbittern) recovered by...
- Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) Eurypygiformes (sunbittern and kagu)...
- Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and non-avian dinosaurs except that some of the...