Apodimorphae

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Apodimorphae
Temporal range:
Paleocene - Holocene, 60–0  Ma
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Australian owlet-nightjar, Aegotheles cristatus
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Common swift, Apus apus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Strisores
Clade: Vanescaves
Clade: Apodimorphae
Sibley et al., 1988
Subtaxa

Apodimorphae is a clade of strisorean birds that include the extant families Trochilidae (hummingbirds), Hemiprocnidae (treeswifts), Apodidae (swifts), Aegothelidae (owlet-nightjars), and many fossil families. This grouping of birds has been supported in a variety of recent studies. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] There are two higher classification schemes that have been proposed for the apodimorph families. One is all strisorean birds are classified in the order Caprimulgiformes, [3] [5] while the other is the strisorean birds are split into several distinct orders. In this case Apodimorphae is a subclade of Strisores that includes the orders Aegotheliformes (only including the owlet-nightjars of Australasia) and the Apodiformes (the swifts, treeswifts, and hummingbirds which have a global distribution). [2] [4] [6]

The name Daedalornithes [1] has also been used for the clade comprising owlet-nightjars, hummingbirds, and swifts. Daedalornithes and Apodimorphae have different definitions. Daedalornithes is defined as the crown group (the least inclusive clade that includes Aegotheles cristatus and Apus apus) [6] whereas Apodimorphae referring the total-group (the most inclusive clade including Aegotheles cristatus and Apus apus but not Caprimulgus europaeus , Steatornis caripensis , Nyctibius grandis , or Podargus strigoides , a definition that includes fossil lineages more closely related to Daedalornithes than they are to other Strisores)

References

  1. 1 2 Sangster, George (2005). "A name for the clade formed by owlet-nightjars, swifts and hummingbirds (Aves)". Zootaxa. 799 (1): 1–6. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.193.2189 . doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.799.1.1 .
  2. 1 2 Cracraft, Joel (2013), "Avian higher-level relationships and classification: Nonpasseriforms", in Dickinson, Edward C.; Van Remsen, James Jr. (eds.), Non-passerines, The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, vol. 1 (4th ed.), Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press, pp. xxi–xliii, ISBN   9780956861108
  3. 1 2 Jarvis, Erich D.; et al. (2014). "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds". Science. 346 (6215): 1320–1331. Bibcode:2014Sci...346.1320J. doi:10.1126/science.1253451. PMC   4405904 . PMID   25504713.
  4. 1 2 Prum, Richard O.; Berv, Jacob S.; Dornberg, 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. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..569P. doi:10.1038/nature15697. PMID   26444237. S2CID   205246158.
  5. 1 2 Reddy, Sushma; et al. (2015). "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.
  6. 1 2 3 Chen, Albert; White, Noor D.; Benson, Roger B. J.; Braun, Michael J.; Field, Daniel J. (2019). "Total-evidence framework reveals complex morphological evolution in nightbirds (Strisores)" (PDF). Diversity. 11 (9): 143. doi: 10.3390/d11090143 .


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