- Burmeister's usage. In 1867,
Thomas Henry Huxley proposed the name
Cypselomorphae for hummingbirds, swifts, and
nightjars (including owlet-nightjars and...
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convergent with the
closely related Caprimulgiformes,
which form a
clade Cypselomorphae with the Apodiformes. The
Apodiformes evolved in the
Northern Hemisphere...
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Otidimorphae Cypselomorphae...
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undergo daily torpor include birds (even tiny hummingbirds,
notably Cypselomorphae) and some mammals,
including many
marsupial species,
rodent species...
- subfamily, Tytoninae. This is
unsupported by more
recent research (see
Cypselomorphae), but the
relationships of the owls in
general are
still unresolved...
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hypotheses which Mirandornithes are the
sister taxon to
Columbimorphae and
Cypselomorphae the
sister taxon to Otidimorphae, respectively,
found by
Jarvis et al...
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monophyletic lineages have been proposed, such as the Mirandornithes,
Cypselomorphae, Metaves, and Coronaves.
Although groups such as the
former two (uniting...
- (formerly Diatryma), a large,
flightless anseriform H****iavis, a
member of
Cypselomorphae Quasisyndactylus, a
member of
Alcediniformes Vanolimicola, a possible...
- lineage(s), and the Apodiformes, are
postulated to form a
clade called Cypselomorphae, with the owlet-nightjars and the
Apodiformes forming the
clade Daedalornithes...
- time, but
rather convergent. The
Archaeotrogonidae actually seem to be
Cypselomorphae and
related to
nightjars and hummingbirds,
either as a
basal lineage...
