Biology:Pelecanidae
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Short description: Family of birds
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| A great white pelican in breeding condition flying over Walvis Bay, Namibia. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Pelecaniformes |
| Family: | Pelecanidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Type genus | |
| Pelecanus Linnaeus, 1758
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The Pelecanidae is a family of pelecaniform birds within the Pelecani that contains three genera: the extinct Eopelecanus and Miopelecanus and the extant Pelecanus.[4]
Pelecanids have existed since the late Eocene (Priabonian)[5] and they still exist today.[6][7]
References
- ↑ Louchart, Antoine; Tourment, Nicolas; Carrier, Julie (2011). "The Earliest Known Pelican Reveals 30 Million Years of Evolutionary Stasis in Beak Morphology". Journal of Ornithology 150 (1): 15–20. doi:10.1007/s10336-010-0537-5.
- ↑ Kuhl., H.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Bakker, A.; Mayr, G.; Nikolaus, G.; Boerno, S. T.; Klages, S.; Timmermann, B. et al. (2020). "An unbiased molecular approach using 3'UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life.". Molecular Biology and Evolution 38: 108–127. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa191. PMID 32781465.
- ↑ Milne-Edwards (1863). "Les oiseaux aquatiques (Gaviiformes a Anseriformes) du gisement Aquitanien de Saint-Gerand-le-Puy (Allier, France): revision systematique". Palaeovertebrata (Montpellier) 14 (2): 33–115.
- ↑ "Family Pelecanidae" (in en-US). 2023-04-23. https://www.peruaves.org/pelecanidae/.
- ↑ El Adli, Joseph J.; Wilson Mantilla, Jeffrey A.; Antar, Mohammed Sameh M.; Gingerich, Philip D. (2021-06-02). "The earliest recorded fossil pelican, recovered from the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt" (in en). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41: e1903910. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.1903910. ISSN 0272-4634. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2021.1903910.
- ↑ "Pelicans". Firefly encyclopedia of birds. Christopher M. Perrins. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books. 2003. p. 78-81. ISBN 1-55297-777-3. OCLC 51922852. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51922852.
- ↑ Linnaeus, C. (1758) (in la). Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata. 1. Holmiae: Laurentii Salvii. pp. 132–34. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727037. "Rostrum edentulum, rectum: apice adunco, unguiculato. Nares lineares. Facies nuda. Pedes digitís omnibus palmatis."
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