Clade of birds
Coraciimorphae is a clade of birds that contains the order Coliiformes (mousebirds) and the clade Cavitaves (a large assemblage of birds that includes woodpeckers , kingfishers and trogons ).[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] The name however was coined in the 1990s by Sibley and Ahlquist based on their DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.[ 6] However their Coraciimorphae only contains Trogoniformes and Coraciiformes .
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