Struthionidae
| Struthionids Temporal range: Eocene-Holocene 40–0Ma | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Ostrich (Struthio camelus), male and female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Struthioniformes Latham, 1790 |
| Family: | Struthionidae Vigors, 1825[1] |
| Type species | |
| Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Genera | |
Struthionidae is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared during the Eocene epoch. It is today represented by the sole living genus Struthio, but also contains several extinct genera.[2] Traditionally the order Struthioniformes contain the world's ratites, but recent genetic analysis has found that the group is not monophletyic, as it paraphyletic in respect to the tinamous.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Brands, Sheila (14 Aug 2008). "Taxon: Genus Struthio". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved 12 Jun 2012.
- ↑ Mayr, G. (2009). Paleogene fossil birds. Springer.
- ↑ Hackett, S.J. et al. (2008) A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History. Science, 320, 1763.
- ↑ Yuri, T. (2013) Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals. Biology, 2:419–44.