Struthioniformes

Translingual

Etymology

Struthio ‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Struthioniformes

1. A taxonomic order within the parvclass Paleognathae – ratites, principally large, running birds, whose extant members include ostriches, emss, and kiwis.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Paleognathae – infraclass

Hyponyms

• (order): Struthionidae, †Dinornithidae - families

References

• Struthioniformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Struthioniformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Struthioniformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Struthioniformes at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI