| Struthionids Temporal range: Eocene-Holocene 40–0 Ma | |
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| Common Ostrich (Struthio camelus), male and female | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Struthioniformes Latham, 1790 |
| Family: | Struthionidae Vigors, 1825[1] |
| Type species | |
| Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Genera | |
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†Orientornis | |
Struthionidae is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared during the Eocene epoch. It is today represented by the sole living genus Struthio, but also contains several extinct genera.[2] Traditionally the order Struthioniformes contained the world's ratites, but recent genetic analysis has found that the group is not monophletyic, as it paraphyletic in respect to the tinamous.[3][4]
Taxonomy[]
Struthionidae[5][6][7] (ostriches)
- †Palaeotis weigelti Lambrecht 1928 [Palaeogrus geiseltalensis Lambrecht 1935; Ornitocnemus geiseltalensis (Lambrecht 1935) Brodkorb 1967] (middle Eocene)
- †Orientornis linxiaensis (Hou et al. 2005) Wang 2008 [Struthio linxiaensis Hou et al. 2005]
- Struthio Linnaeus 1758 [Palaeostruthio Burchak-Abramovich 1953; Struthiolithus Brandt 1873; (Pachystruthio) Kretzoi 1954a] (Early Miocene – Recent)
- †S. anderssoni Lowe 1931 [ootaxa]
- †S. chersonensis Brandt 1873 [Struthiolithus chersonensis Brandt 1873 [ootaxa]; Struthio novorossicus Alekseev 1916; Struthio brachydactylus Burchak-Abramovich 1949; Palaeostruthio sternatus Burchak-Abramovich 1953; Struthio (Pachystruthio) pannonicus Kretzoi 1954a; Struthiolithus alexejevi Roščin, 1962 [ootaxa]; Struthiolithus adzalycensis Roščin, 1962 [ootaxa]; Struthio orlovi Kuročkin & Lungo 1970]
- †S. daberasensis Pickford, Senut & Dauphin 1995 [Struthiolithus chersonensis Brandt 1873 [ootaxa]]
- †S. kakesiensis Harrison & Msuya 2005 [ootaxa]
- †S. karingarabensis Senut, Dauphin & Pickford 1998 [ootaxa]
- †S. mongolicus [ootaxa] (Inner Mongolia)
- †S. asiaticus Brodkorb 1863 [Struthio indicus (Bidwell 1910)] (Asian Ostrich)
- †S. coppensi Mourer-Chauviré et al. 1996
- †S. dmanisensis Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua 1990
- †S. karatheodoris Forsyth Major 1888
- †S. oldawayi Lowe 1933
- †S. wimani Lowe 1931
- †S. transcaucasicus Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua 1971
- S. molybdophanes Reichenow 1883 [Struthio camelus molybdophanes Reichenow 1883] (Somali Ostrich)
- S. camelus Linnaeus 1758 [Avis struthio]
- S. c. australis (Gurney 1868) [Struthio australis Gurney 1868; Struthio camelus meridionalis] (South African Ostrich)
- †S. c. syriacus Rothschild 1919 (Arabian Ostrich)
- S. c. camelus Linnaeus 1758 [Struthio camelus rothschildi Grant & Mackworth-Praed 1951] (North African Ostrich)
- S. c. massaicus (Neumann 1898) [Struthio massaicus Neumann 1898] (Masai Ostrich)
References[]
- ^ Brands, Sheila (14 Aug 2008). "Taxon: Genus Struthio". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved 12 Jun 2012.
- ^ Mayr, G. (2009). Paleogene fossil birds. Springer.
- ^ Hackett, S.J. et al. (2008) A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History. Science, 320, 1763.
- ^ Yuri, T. (2013) Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals. Biology, 2:419–44.
- ^ Mikko's Phylogeny Archive [1] Haaramo, Mikko (2007). "Paleognathia - paleognathous modern birds". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ Paleofile.com (net, info) [2]. "Taxonomic lists- Aves". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ^ English Names of Birds [3] Çınar, Ümüt (November 2015). "01 → Pᴀʟᴇᴏɢɴᴀᴛʜᴀᴇ : Sᴛʀᴜᴛʜɪᴏɴɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs, Rʜᴇɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs, Cᴀsᴜᴀʀɪɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs, Aᴘᴛᴇʀʏɢɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs, Aᴇᴘʏᴏʀɴɪᴛʜɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs, Dɪɴᴏʀɴɪᴛʜɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs, Lɪᴛʜᴏʀɴɪᴛʜɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs, Tɪɴᴀᴍɪfᴏʀᴍᴇs & Rᴇfᴇʀᴇɴᴄᴇs". Retrieved 30 December 2015.
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