Galliformes
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Translingual
Etymology
Proper noun
Galliformes
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae - infraclass; Galloanseri - superorder
Hyponyms
- (order): Craci, Phasiani - suborders
- Cracidae (chachalacas, guans and curassows), Megapodiidae (mound-builders), †Sylviornithidae - families in Cracini
- Tetraonidae (grouse), Phasianidae (chickens, partridges, pheasants, quail etc), Odontophoridae (New World quail), Numididae (guineafowl), Meleagrididae (turkeys) (possibly in Phasianidae as Meleagridinae), Mesitornithidae (mesites) (possibly in a different order) - families in Phasiani
- †Gallinuloididae, †Paraortygidae, †Quercymegapodiidae - extinct familes incertae sedis
- †Amitabha, †Archaealectrornis, †Namaortyx, †Procrax, †Taoperdix - extinct genera incertae sedis
Further reading
Galliformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Galliformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Galliformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Galliformes at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
- 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
