Sibley-Monroe checklist 4

The Sibley-Monroe checklist was a landmark document in the study of birds. It drew on extensive DNA-DNA hybridisation studies to reassess the relationships between modern birds.

Coraciiformes (continued)

Alcedinidae

Halcyonidae

Cerylidae

Meropidae

Coliiformes

Coliidae

Cuculiformes

Cuculidae

Centropodidae

Coccyzidae

Opisthocomidae

Crotophagidae

Neomorphidae

Psittaciformes

Psittacidae

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References

  1. Cacatua goffini has been synonymized with Cacatua ducorpsii; the new name for this species is Cacatua goffiniana, see Roselaar, C.S.; T.G. Prins (2000). "List of type specimens of birds in the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam (ZMA), including taxa described by ZMA staff but without types in ZMA". Beaufortia 50: 95–126. and Roselaar, C.S.; J.P. Michels (2004). "Systematic notes on Asian birds. 48. Nomenclatural chaos untangled, resulting in the naming of the formally undescribed Cacatua species from the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae)". Zoologische Verhandelingen 350: 183–196.
  2. David, N. & Gosselin, M. 2002. The grammatical gender of avian genera. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 122: 257-282