Coraciiformes
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Translingual[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Coraciiformes
- A taxonomic order within the subclass Aves – the kingfishers, hoopoe, bee-eaters, rollers and hornbills etc..
Hypernyms[edit]
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass
Hyponyms[edit]
- (order): Alcedinidae (river kingfishers), Brachypteraciidae (ground rollers), Coraciidae (rollers), Meropidae (bee-eaters), Momotidae (motmots), Todidae (todies) - families sensu stricto
- Bucerotidae (hornbills), Cerylidae (water kingfishers), Halcyonidae (tree kingfishers), Leptosomatidae (cuckoo rollers), Phoeniculidae (wood hoopoes), Upupidae (hoopoes) - additional families sensu lato
References[edit]
Coraciiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Coraciiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Coraciiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Coraciiformes at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
- Coraciiformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Coraciiformes at Encyclopedia of Life
- Coraciiformes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
