Ciconiiformes

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Translingual

Etymology

Ciconia +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Ciconiiformes

A taxonomic order within the subclass Aves – storks, herons, egrets, ibises, spoonbills, etc.

Hypernyms

(order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder^[1]

Hyponyms

(order of birds): Ciconiidae (storks) - sole family sensu stricto
- Ardeidae, Cochlearidae, Balaenicipitidae, Scopidae, Threskiornithidae - additional families sensu lato

References

Ciconiiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ciconiiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Ciconiiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Ciconiiformes at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
Ciconiiformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Ciconiiformes 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

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