Biology:Pelecanimorphae

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Pelecanimorphae is a clade of aequornithean birds that comprises the orders Ciconiiformes, Suliformes and Pelecaniformes.[1][2] In the past the name has been used as a homonym for Pelecaniformes. Pelecanimorphae is defined in the PhyloCode by George Sangster and colleagues in 2022 as "the least inclusive clade containing Pelecanus onocrotalus, Sula leucogaster, and Ciconia ciconia".[3] The less inclusive clade Pelecanes was named by Sangster et al, 2022 to unite Pelecaniformes and Suliformes and defined in the PhyloCode as the "least inclusive crown clade containing Pelecanus onocrotalus and Sula leucogaster".[3]

This cladogram follows the hypothesis that herons are sister to Pelecani.[4][5]

Pelecanimorphae
Ciconiiformes

Ciconiidae (storks)

Pelecanes
Suliformes

Fregatidae (frigatebirds)

Sulidae (boobies and gannets)

Anhingidae (darters)

Phalacrocoracidae (cormorants)

Pelecaniformes

Threskiornithidae (ibises and spoonbills)

Ardeidae (herons)

Pelecani

Scopidae (hamerkop)

Balaenicipitidae (shoebill)

Pelecanidae (pelicans)

References

  1. Jarvis, E.D. (2014). "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds". Science 346 (6215): 1320–1331. doi:10.1126/science.1253451. PMID 25504713. Bibcode2014Sci...346.1320J. 
  2. Prum, Richard O.; Berv, Jacob S.; Dornburg, Alex; Field, Daniel J.; Townsend, Jeffrey P.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Lemmon, Alan R. (2015). "A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing". Nature 526 (7574): 569–573. doi:10.1038/nature15697. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26444237. Bibcode2015Natur.526..569P. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Sangster, George; Braun, Edward L.; Johansson, Ulf S.; Kimball, Rebecca T.; Mayr, Gerald; Suh, Alexander (2022-01-01). "Phylogenetic definitions for 25 higher-level clade names of birds". Avian Research 13. doi:10.1016/j.avrs.2022.100027. ISSN 2053-7166. Bibcode2022AvRes..1300027S. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/84494/1/1_s2.0_S2053716622000238_main.pdf. 
  4. Reddy, S.; Kimball, R.T.; Pandey, A. et al. (2017). "Why do phylogenomic data sets yield conflicting trees? Data type influences the avian tree of life more than taxon sampling". Systematic Biology 66 (5): 857–879. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syx041. PMID 28369655. 
  5. Kuhl, H.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Bakker, A. et al. (2021). "An unbiased molecular approach using 3′-UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life". Molecular Biology and Evolution 38 (1): 108–127. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa191. PMID 32781465. 

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