The Phaethontiformes /ˌfeɪ.ɪˈθɒntɪfɔːrmiːz/ are an order of birds. They contain one extant family, the tropicbirds (Phaethontidae), and one extinct family...
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pelagic seabirds. They are the sole living representatives of the order Phaethontiformes. For many years they were considered part of the Pelecaniformes, but...
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List of birds (section Order Phaethontiformes)
Eurypygiformes (sunbittern, kagu) Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds)...
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The largest extant species of bird measured by mass is the common ostrich (Struthio camelus), closely followed by the Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes)...
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List of bird genera (section Phaethontiformes)
List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and...
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Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) Eurypygiformes (sunbittern and kagu)...
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and relatives) Gruiformes (cranes and relatives) Phaethontimorphae Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) Eurypygiformes (kagu and sunbittern) Aequornithes Gaviiformes...
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List of fossil bird genera (section Phaethontiformes)
Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and non-avian dinosaurs except that some of the...
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related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It is found in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans...
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Clymenoptilon (category Phaethontiformes)
Paleocene of New Zealand illuminates the early evolutionary history of the Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds)". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology...
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