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Tropicbird

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Tropicbirds
Temporal range: Early Eocene tae present
Reid-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus mesonauta)
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Aves
Clade: Eurypygimorphae
Order: Phaethontiformes
Sharpe, 1891
Faimily: Phaethontidae
Brandt, 1840
Genus: Phaethon
Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Synonyms[1]
  • Leptophaethon Mathews 1913
  • Lepturus Moehring 1752 nom rej.
  • Lepturus Brisson 1760
  • Scaeophaethon Mathews 1913
  • Phoenicurus Bonaparte 1855 non Forster 1817
  • Tropicophilus Stephens 1826

Tropicbirds are a faimily, Phaethontidae, o tropical pelagic seabirds nou classified in thair ain order Phaethontiformes.

Species

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Faimily Phaethontidae

  1. "Part 7- Vertebrates". Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement. 2007. Archived frae the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 30 Juin 2017.