Afroaves

Afroavians
	File:Afroaves diversity.png
	Diversity of Afroaves.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Telluraves
Clade:	Afroaves; Ericson, 2012
Subclades
	Accipitrimorphae; Strigiformes; Picimorphae;

Afroaves is a recently defined^[1] clade of birds, consisting of the kingfishers and kin (Coraciiformes), woodpeckers and kin (Piciformes), hornbills and kin (Bucerotiformes), trogons (Trogoniformes), cuckoo roller (Leptosomatiformes), mousebirds (Coliiformes), owls (Strigiformes), raptors (Accipitriformes) and New World vultures (Cathartiformes).^[2] They appear to be the sister group of Australaves.^[2] The most basal clades are predatory, suggesting the last common ancestor of the group was also.^[3]

Afroaves

Accipitrimorphae

	AccipitriformesFile:Gampsonyx swainsonii Pearl Kite.png

	Cathartiformes (New World vultures)File:Black Vulture RWD2013A.png

Strigiformes (owls)File:Tyto alba -British Wildlife Centre, Surrey, England-8a.png

Coraciimorphae

Coliiformes (mousebirds)File:Colius striatus Rwanda 1.png

Eucavitaves

Leptosomatiformes (cuckoo roller)File:Leptosomus-discolor--Weltvogelpark Walsrode2008.png

Cavitaves

Trogoniformes (trogons)File:Trogon surrucura brazil.png

Picocoraciae

Bucerotiformes (hornbills and hoopoes)File:Nordlig hornkorp.png

Picodynastornithes

	Coraciiformes (rollers and kingfishers)File:Halcyon smyrnensis in India (8277355382).png

	Piciformes (woodpeckers and toucans)File:Dendrocopos major -Durham, England -female-8.png

Cladogram of Afroaves relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014)^[3] with some clade names after Yury, T. et al. (2013).^[4] (Note: It differs than the one at Taxonomy in Flux).

References[edit]

^ Ericson, P.G. (2012). "Evolution of terrestrial birds in three continents: biogeography and parallel radiations" (PDF). Journal of Biogeography. 39 (5): 813–824. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02650.x.
^ ^a ^b Naish, D. (2012). "Birds." Pp. 379-423 in Brett-Surman, M.K., Holtz, T.R., and Farlow, J. O. (eds.), The Complete Dinosaur (Second Edition). Indiana University Press (Bloomington & Indianapolis).
^ ^a ^b doi:10.1126/science.1253451
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^ Yuri, T. et al. (2013) Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruent and Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals. Biology, 2(1):419-444. doi:10.3390/biology2010419

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[ericson2012-1] Ericson, P.G. (2012). "Evolution of terrestrial birds in three continents: biogeography and parallel radiations" (PDF). Journal of Biogeography. 39 (5): 813–824. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02650.x.

[naish2012-2] Naish, D. (2012). "Birds." Pp. 379-423 in Brett-Surman, M.K., Holtz, T.R., and Farlow, J. O. (eds.), The Complete Dinosaur (Second Edition). Indiana University Press (Bloomington & Indianapolis).

[Jarvis2014-3] :10.1126/science.1253451
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[4] Yuri, T. et al. (2013) Parsimony and Model-Based Analyses of Indels in Avian Nuclear Genes Reveal Congruent and Incongruent Phylogenetic Signals. Biology, 2(1):419-444. doi:10.3390/biology2010419

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