Woodpeckers And Relatives

Piciformes sunt ordo zoologicus qui in circa decem familiis avium plerumque arboricolarum consistit, quarum notissima est familia Picidarum. Ordo circa sexaginta et septem genera viva et plus quam quadringentas species continet, quarum Picidae sunt paene dimidia pars.

Familiae

• Inordinata (omnia fossilia)
  • Piciformes gen. et sp. indet. IRScNB Av 65
  • Piciformes gen. et sp. indet. SMF Av 429
• Subordo Galbulae
  • Familia Galbulidae (18 species)
  • Familia Bucconidae (circa 30 species)
• Subordo Pici
  • Inordinata taxa (omnia fossilia)
    • Genus Rupelramphastoides
    • Genus Capitonides
    • Pici gen. et sp. indet.
  • Familia Lybiidae (circa 40 species, nuper ex Capitonidis separatae)
  • Familia Megalaimidae (circa 25 species, nuper ex Capitonidis separatae)
  • Familia Ramphastidae (circa 40 species)
  • Familia Semnornithidae (2 species, nuper ex Capitonidis separatae)
  • Familia Capitonidae (circa 15 species)
  • Familia Miopiconidae (fossilia)
  • Familia Picidae (plus quam 200 species)
  • Familia Indicatoridae (17 species)

Bibliographia

Primozygodactylus, avis zygodactylida

Mas Melanerpes carolinus

• Ballmann, Peter. 1969. Les Oiseaux miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère). Geobios 2: 157-204. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(69)80005-7. HTML abstractum.
• Cracraft, Joel, et John J. Morony Jr. 1969. A new Pliocene woodpecker, with comments on the fossil Picidae. American Museum Novitates 2400: 1-8. PDF fulltext
• Gorman, Gerard. 2004. Woodpeckers of Europe: A Study of the European Picidae. UK: Bruce Coleman. ISBN 1-872842-05-4.
• Johansson, Ulf S., et Per G. P. Ericson. 2003. Molecular support for a sister group relationship between Pici and Galbulae (Piciformes sensu Wetmore 1960). Journal of Avian Biology 34(2): 185–197. doi:10.1034/j.1600-048X.2003.03103.x. PDF.