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Phaethontidae (tropicbird)
Taxonomy
Phaethontidae was named by Brandt (1831). It is extant.
It was assigned to Phaetontes by Lambrecht (1933); to Pelecaniformes by Olson (1975); to Phaethontes by Olson (1985), Olson (1985), Carroll (1988), Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Aequornithes by Mayr (2011); and to Phaethontiformes by Bourdon et al. (2005), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Phaetontes by Lambrecht (1933); to Pelecaniformes by Olson (1975); to Phaethontes by Olson (1985), Olson (1985), Carroll (1988), Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Aequornithes by Mayr (2011); and to Phaethontiformes by Bourdon et al. (2005), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Clements et al. (2017).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1831 | Phaethontidae Brandt |
| 1933 | Phaetontidae Lambrecht p. 276 |
| 1975 | Phaethontidae Olson p. 22 |
| 1985 | Phaethontidae Olson p. 194 |
| 1988 | Phaethontidae Carroll |
| 2005 | Phaethontidae Bourdon et al. p. 167 |
| 2007 | Phaethontidae Livezey and Zusi p. 91 |
| 2011 | Phaethontidae Mayr p. 73 figs. Figure 5 |
| 2014 | Phaethontidae del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Phaethontidae Clements et al. |
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Fm. Phaethontidae Brandt 1831 [tropicbird]
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G. †Heliadornis Olson 1985
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†Heliadornis ashbyi Olson 1985
†Heliadornis paratethydicus Mlíkovský 1997
G. Phaethon Linnaeus 1758
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Phaethon aethereus Linnaeus 1758 [red-billed tropicbird]
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802 [white-tailed tropicbird]
Phaethon rubricauda Boddaert 1783 [red-tailed tropicbird]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available