Picides

Picides

Scaly-throated honeyguide (Indicator variegatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Suborder:	Pici
Infraorder:	Picides Meyer & Wolf, 1810
Families
Indicatoridae Picidae

Picides is an infraorder of the Piciformes order, that includes woodpeckers and honeyguides. The honeyguides were thought to be closely related to the barbets, as their ariel display and vocalization are similar to each other than either are to woodpeckers. However phylogenetic analysis has shown that honeyguides and woodpeckers are indeed sister taxa.^[1]^[2]

Systematics

Despite having two families, Picides is an extremely widespread group of piciforms with the family Picidae being the largest containing about 200 species in four subfamilies.

Infraorder Picides
- Family Indicatoridae (Honeyguides)
- Family Picidae
  - Subfamily Jynginae (Wrynecks)
  - Subfamily Nesoctitinae (Antillean Piculet)
  - Subfamily Picumninae (Piculets)
  - Subfamily Picinae (Woodpeckers)

References

↑ Sibley, Charles Gald & Ahlquist, Jon Edward (1990): Phylogeny and classification of birds. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.
↑ Moyle, R. G. (2004). Phylogenetics of barbets (Aves: Piciformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 30(1), 187-200.

External links

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Tree of Life Piciformes

Order: Piciformes

Suborder	Family

Galbuli	Galbulidae (jacamars) Bucconidae (puffbirds, nunbirds and nunlets)

Pici	Lybiidae (African barbets) Megalaimidae (Asian barbets) Ramphastidae (toucans) Semnornithidae (toucan-barbets) Capitonidae (American barbets) Picidae (woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks) Indicatoridae (honeyguides)

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