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Ardeae (disused)

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Ardeae was named as a suborder. It is extant.

It was reranked as the unranked clade Ardeae by Jaekel (1911).

It was assigned to Ciconiiformes by Jaekel (1911); to Ardeiformes by Brunet (1970); to Ciconiiformes by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956) and Cheneval (1984); and to Aequorlitornithes by Prum et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Ardeae Jaekel p. 178
1933Ardeae Lambrecht p. 310
1940Ardeae Wetmore p. 14
1956Ardeae Wetmore p. 18
1970Ardeae Brunet p. 16
1984Ardeae Cheneval p. 77
2015Ardeae Prum et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
RankNameAuthor
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Theropoda()
—Neotheropoda
—AverostraPaul 2002
—Tetanurae
—Coelurosauria()
—Maniraptora
—Paraves
classAves
subclassNeornithesGadow 1893
—Neognathae(Pycraft 1900)
—NeoavesSibley et al. 1988
—Aequorlitornithes
suborderArdeae
suborderArdeae

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.

Subor. Ardeae
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available