Strisores

Strisores
Temporal range:
Early Eocene - Holocene, 51–0 Ma[1] Possibly an earlier origin based on molecular clock[2]
Common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor
(Caprimulgidae)
Male rufous hummingbird,
Selasphorus rufus (Trochilidae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
(unranked): Passerea
Clade: Strisores
Cabanis, 1847
Orders

Strisores (/straɪˈsoʊriːz/ stry-SOH-reez[3]), sometimes called nightbirds, is a clade of birds that includes the living families and orders Caprimulgidae (nightjars, nighthawks and allies), Nyctibiidae (potoos), Steatornithidae (oilbirds), Podargidae (frogmouths), Apodiformes (swifts and hummingbirds), as well as the Aegotheliformes (owlet-nightjars) whose distinctness was only recently realized. The Apodiformes (which include the "Trochiliformes" of the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy) and the Aegotheliformes form the Daedalornithes.[4]

  1. ^ Ksepka, D. T.; Clarke, J. A.; Nesbitt, S. J.; Kulp, F. B.; Grande, L. (2013). "Fossil evidence of wing shape in a stem relative of swifts and hummingbirds (Aves, Pan-Apodiformes)". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280 (1761): 20130580. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.0580
  2. ^ Kuhl., H.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Bakker, A.; et al. (2020). "An unbiased molecular approach using 3'UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38: 108–127. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa191. PMC 7783168. PMID 32781465.
  3. ^ Whitney, William Dwight (1896), The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, vol. VII, New York: The Century Co., p. 5996
  4. ^ Sangster, George (2005). "A name for the clade formed by owlet-nightjars, swifts and hummingbirds (Aves)". Zootaxa. 799 (1): 1–6. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.799.1.1.