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Phoenicopteridae (flamingo)
Taxonomy
Phoenicopteridae was named by Bonaparte (1838). It is extant. Its type is Phoenicopterus.
It was assigned to Phoenicopteroidea by Hay (1902); to Phoenicopteroidae by Hay (1930); to Phoenicopteri by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956); to Charadriiformes by Carroll (1988) and Emslie (1992); to Ciconiiformes by Brodkorb (1955), Harrison and Walker (1976) and Olson and Rasmussen (2001); to Phoenicopteriformes by Mayr (2005); to Ciconioidea by Livezey and Zusi (2007); and to Phoenicopteriformes by Howard (1955), Howard (1972), Cheneval (1984), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was assigned to Phoenicopteroidea by Hay (1902); to Phoenicopteroidae by Hay (1930); to Phoenicopteri by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956); to Charadriiformes by Carroll (1988) and Emslie (1992); to Ciconiiformes by Brodkorb (1955), Harrison and Walker (1976) and Olson and Rasmussen (2001); to Phoenicopteriformes by Mayr (2005); to Ciconioidea by Livezey and Zusi (2007); and to Phoenicopteriformes by Howard (1955), Howard (1972), Cheneval (1984), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017) and Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1838 | Phoenicopteridae Bonaparte |
| 1902 | Phoenicopteridae Hay p. 531 |
| 1930 | Phoenicopteridae Hay p. 297 |
| 1933 | Phoenicopteridae Lambrecht p. 338 |
| 1940 | Phoenicopteridae Wetmore p. 19 |
| 1955 | Phoenicopteridae Brodkorb p. 18 |
| 1955 | Phoenicopteridae Howard p. 22 |
| 1956 | Phoenicopteridae Wetmore p. 23 |
| 1972 | Phoenicopteridae Howard p. 9 |
| 1976 | Phoenicopteridae Harrison and Walker p. 333 |
| 1984 | Phoenicopteridae Cheneval p. 90 |
| 1988 | Phoenicopteridae Carroll |
| 1992 | Phoenicopteridae Emslie p. 263 |
| 2001 | Phoenicopteridae Olson and Rasmussen p. 294 |
| 2005 | Phoenicopteridae Mayr p. 318 |
| 2007 | Phoenicopteridae Livezey and Zusi p. 91 |
| 2014 | Phoenicopteridae del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Phoenicopteridae Clements et al. |
| 2020 | Phoenicopteridae Worthy and Nguyen p. 81 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Phoenicopteridae Bonaparte 1838 [flamingo]
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G. †Elornis Aymard 1856
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†Elornis grandis Milne-Edwards 1870
†Elornis littoralis Milne-Edwards 1868
G. Phoeniconaias Gray 1869
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†Phoeniconaias gracilis Miller 1963
†Phoeniconaias proeses De Vis 1905
G. Phoenicoparrus Bonaparte 1856
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Phoenicoparrus andinus Philippi 1854 [Andean flamingo]
Phoenicoparrus jamesi Sclater 1886 [Puna flamingo]
Phoenicoparrus minor Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1798 [Lesser flamingo]
G. Phoenicopterus Linnaeus 1758
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Phoenicopterus chilensis Molina 1782 [Chilean flamingo]
†Phoenicopterus copei Shufeldt 1891
†Phoenicopterus croizeti Gervais 1852
†Phoenicopterus floridanus Brodkorb 1953 [flamingo]
†Phoenicopterus minutus Howard 1955
†Phoenicopterus novaehollandiae Miller 1963
Phoenicopterus roseus Pallas 1811 [greater flamingo]
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Invalid names: Phoenicopterus antiquorum Temminck 1815 [synonym]
Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus 1758 [American flamingo]
†Phoenicopterus stocki Miller 1944
Invalid names: Gervaisia Harrison and Walker 1976 [synonym], Harrisonavis Kašin 1978 [synonym]
G. †Xenorhynchopsis De Vis 1905
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†Xenorhynchopsis minor De Vis 1905
†Xenorhynchopsis tibialis De Vis 1905
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available