Piciformes
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Translingual
Etymology
Proper noun
Piciformes
- A taxonomic order within the subclass Aves – woodpeckers, barbets, toucans, jacamars, puffbirds and honeyguides 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
Hyponyms
- (order): Galbulae, Pici
- Galbulidae (jacamars), Bucconidae (puffbirds etc) - families in Galbulae; Capitonidae (barbets), Indicatoridae (honeyguides), Ramphastidae (toucans), Picidae (woodpeckers etc), Lybiidae (African barbets), Semnornithidae (prong-billed barbets and toucan barbets) - families in Pici
References
Piciformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Piciformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Piciformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Piciformes at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
- Piciformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Piciformes at Encyclopedia of Life
- Piciformes 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: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
