Bucerotiformes /bjuːˈsɛrətɪfɔːrmiːz/ is an order of birds that contains the hornbills, ground hornbills, hoopoes and wood hoopoes.[1] These birds were previously classified as members of Coraciiformes.[2][3][4] The clade is distributed in Africa, Asia, Europe and Melanesia.
Bucerotiformes
Upupidae – hoopoes
Phoeniculidae – wood hoopoes
Bucorvidae – ground hornbills
Bucerotidae – hornbills
Phylogenetic relationships between the families based on a large study by
Richard Prum and colleagues published in 2015.
[5] Systematics
Recent genetic data show that ground hornbills and Bycanistes form a clade outside the rest of the hornbill lineage.[6] They are thought to represent an early African lineage, while the rest of Bucerotiformes evolved in Asia. The hoopoe subspecies Saint Helena hoopoe and the Madagascar subspecies are sometimes elevated to a full species. The two wood hoopoe genera, Phoeniculus and Rhinopomastus, appear to have diverged about 10 million years ago, so some systematists treat them as separate subfamilies or even separate families.[7]
Extinct Messelirrisoridae and Laurillardiidae families were both considered to be stem groups of a previously categorized Upupiformes order prior to it being subcategorized into Bucerotiformes.[8]
Taxonomy
Order Bucerotiformes
- Family †Messelirrisoridae
- Genus †Messelirrisor
- †Messelirrisor halcyrostris
- †Messelirrisor grandis
- †Messelirrisor parvus
- Family †Laurillardiidae
- Genus †Laurillardia
- †Laurillardia longirostris
- †Laurillardia munieri
- †Laurillardia smoleni
- Suborder Upupi
- Suborder Buceroti
- Family Bucorvidae
- Family Bucerotidae
- Genus Bycanistes
- Genus Tropicranus (sometimes included in Tockus)
- Genus Tockus
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Black dwarf hornbill, Tockus hartlaubi
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Red-billed dwarf hornbill, Tockus camurus
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Monteiro's hornbill, Tockus monteiri
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Red-billed hornbill group
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Eastern yellow-billed hornbill, Tockus flavirostris
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Southern yellow-billed hornbill, Tockus leucomelas
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Jackson's hornbill, Tockus jacksoni
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Von der Decken's hornbill, Tockus deckeni
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Crowned hornbill, Tockus alboterminatus
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Bradfield's hornbill, Tockus bradfieldi
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African pied hornbill, Tockus fasciatus
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Hemprich's hornbill, Tockus hemprichii
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Pale-billed hornbill, Tockus pallidirostris
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African grey hornbill, Tockus nasutus
- Genus Ocyceros
- Genus Anthracoceros
- Genus Buceros
- Genus Rhinoplax (sometimes included in Buceros)
- Genus Anorrhinus
- Genus Penelopides
- Genus Berenicornis (sometimes included in Aceros)
- Genus Aceros
- Genus Rhabdotorrhinus
- Genus Rhyticeros (sometimes included in Aceros)
- Genus Ceratogymna
References
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^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
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^ Johansson, Ulf S.; Ericson, Per G.P. (2003). "Molecular support for a sister group relationship between Pici and Galbulae (Piciformes sensu Wetmore 1960)" (PDF). J. Avian Biol. 34 (2): 185–197. doi:10.1034/j.1600-048X.2003.03103.x. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
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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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^ Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014) Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science, 346(6215):1320-1331.
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^ Prum, R.O.; Berv, J.S.; Dornburg, A.; Field, D.J.; Townsend, J.P.; Lemmon, E.M.; Lemmon, A.R. (2015). "A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing". Nature. 526 (7574): 569–573. doi:10.1038/nature15697. PMID 26444237.
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^ Woodruff, D. S. & Srikwan, S. 2011. Molecular genetics and the conservation of hornbills in fragmented landscapes. In Poonswad, P. (ed) The Asian Hornbills: Ecology and Conservation. National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Bangkok, pp. 257-264.
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^ Fry, C. Hilary (2003). "Wood-hoopoes". In Perrins, Christopher. The Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds. Firefly Books. p. 383. ISBN 1-55297-777-3.
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^ Mayr, Gerald (2009). "Paleogene Fossil Birds". In Springer Science & Business Media, 21 April 2009, p. 194. ISBN 978-3-540-89627-2
