Temporal range: Early Eocene - Holocene, 51–0 Ma[1]
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O
S
D
C
P
T
J
K
Pg
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Possibly an earlier origin based on molecular clock[2]
Common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor (Caprimulgidae)
Male rufous hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus (Trochilidae)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Clade:
Passerea
Clade:
Strisores Cabanis, 1847
Orders
Traditional Two Orders:
Apodiformes
Caprimulgiformes
Single Order:
Caprimulgiformes
Multiple Orders:
Caprimulgiformes
Vanescaves
Sedentaves
Letornithes
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]
^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
^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.
^Whitney, William Dwight (1896), The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, vol. VII, New York: The Century Co., p. 5996
^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.
use Strisores in a similar sense as Huxley's Cypselomorphae (this time also excluding the owlet-nightjars), but by the late 19th Century, Strisores had...
and owlet-nightjars all being reclassified into their own orders. See Strisores for more info about the disputes over the taxonomy of Caprimulgiformes...
cuckoos) and Strisores (nightbirds, swifts, and hummingbirds). It was identified in 2014 by genome analysis. Earlier it was thought that Strisores was closely...
Enigmatic Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus and the Early Diversification of Strisores ("Caprimulgiformes" + Apodiformes)". PLOS ONE. 6 (11): e26350. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...
different ecological niches. They include the clades Phaethoquornithes and Strisores, as well as the Gruimorphae and Opisthocomiformes. According to Stiller...
clade comprises Gruimorphae (orders Charadriiformes and Gruiformes) and Strisores (the order Caprimulgiformes and the clade Vanescaves). While different...
from phylogenomic data: Higher-level relationships of the nightbirds (Strisores)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 141: 106611. doi:10.1016/j.ympev...
nightbird in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nightbird may refer to: Strisores, a group of birds sometimes called "nightbirds" "Nightbird" (song), a...
into several distinct orders. In this case Apodimorphae is a subclade of Strisores that includes the orders Aegotheliformes (only including the owlet-nightjars...
insectivore with reduced feet, it was recovered as a sister-taxon to all other Strisores. Pan-Apodidae Scaniacypselus Scaniacypselus szarskii (Peters, 1985) An...
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