Cathartiformes
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| Cathartiformes Temporal range: Eocene to present
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Accipitrimorphae |
| Order: | Cathartiformes Coues, 1884 |
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The order Cathartiformes is an order of raptors or birds of prey that include the New World vultures and the now extinct teratornithidae.[1] Sometimes these raptors are classified in the related order Accipitriformes (which include the like eagles and hawks), but now they are consider a separate but closely related order.[2] In the past they were considered to be a sister group to the storks of the order Ciconiiformes based on DNA-DNA hybridization and morphology.[3][4]
References
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- ↑ Ligon, J. David. "Relationships of the cathartid vultures." (1967).
- ↑ Sibley, Charles Gald & Ahlquist, Jon Edward (1990): Phylogeny and classification of birds. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.
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