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Rockers
European roller (Coracias garrulus)

European roller ( Coracias garrulus )

Systematics
Over trunk : Neumünder (Deuterostomia)
Trunk : Chordates (chordata)
Sub-stem : Vertebrates (vertebrata)
Row : Land vertebrates (Tetrapoda)
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Rockers
Scientific name
Coraciiformes
Forbes , 1884

The whackebirds (Coraciiformes) or whackebirds are an order of very diverse, predominantly tropical and very colorful birds , which have different ways of life. They only have one feature in common: the toes often deviate from the norm, they are partially fused together.

Systematics

The Handbook of the Birds of the World lists the following six rocket families:

The order was traditionally even broader and contained other externally diverse families. Since the turn of the millennium, phylogenetic studies have initially shown that the Kurol ( Leptosomus discolor ) is not a sackbill, but is systematically isolated and that the remaining sackbirds formed a paraphyletic taxon in relation to the woodpeckers (Piciformes).

The family relationships according to Hackett et al. shows the following cladogram :





  Rockers  

Bee-eater  (Meropidae)


   


Erdracken  (Brachypteraciidae)


   

Racken  (Coraciidae)



   


Kingfishers  (Alcedinidae)


   

Sawbacks  (Momotidae)



   

Todis  (Todidae)






   

Woodpecker birds  (Piciformes)



  Bucerotiformes  


Hornbills  (Bucerotidae)


   

 Ground hornbills (Bucorvidae)



   

Hoopoes  (Upupidae)


   

Tree hops  (Phoeniculidae)





   

Trogons  (Trogoniformes)



   

Kurole  (Leptosomatiformes)


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The monophyly of the sackbirds is preserved by the establishment of the new order Bucerotiformes with the families hornbills , ground hornbills , hoopoes and tree hops . Rocket birds and woodpecker birds are sister groups , the common taxon is sister group of the Bucerotiformes, all three together are sister taxons of the Trogons (Trogonidae). The Kurol is the sister species of the four aforementioned orders.

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  1. ↑ Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 6
  2. ↑ Per GP Ericson et al .: Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils . Biol. Lett. doi : 10.1098 / rsbl.2006.0523 PDF
  3. ↑ Hackett et al .: A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History . Science 27 June 2008: Vol. 320. no. 5884, pp. 1763–1768, doi : 10.1126 / science.1157704
  4. ^ Frank Gill and Minturn Wright: Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-7136-7904-2
  5. ↑ Wilfried Westheide & Reinhard Rieger : Special Zoology Part 2: Vertebrae or Skull Animals , 2nd edition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin 2009, page 462, ISBN 3-8274-2039-3
  6. ↑ John Harshman: Land Birds . Version June 27, 2008 in The Tree of Life Web Project

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