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Ratites. Temporal range: Paleocene-Holocene 56–0 ... Order: Struthioniformes Latham, 1790 [1] This is a list of ratites. Codes used in Status columns in tables below
Previously, all the flightless members had been assigned to the order Struthioniformes, which is more recently regarded as containing only the ostrich. [4] [5] The modern bird superorder Palaeognathae consists of ratites and the flighted Neotropic tinamous (compare to Neognathae). [6]
Ratites are a category of (mostly) large flightless birds of the order Struthioniformes. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 ...
Ratites are a category of (mostly) large flightless birds of the order Struthioniformes. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. S.
It is in the infraclass Paleognathae, which contains all ratites. Extant members are found in South America. While the IOC World Bird List and the Clements Checklist categorise Rheiformes as its own order, [3] [4] the BirdLife Data Zone includes rheas, along with ostriches, tinamous, cassowaries, emu, and kiwis, in the order Struthioniformes. [5]
Struthioniformes (ratites) Tinamiformes (tinamous) ... Passeriformes is the taxonomic order to which the perching birds belong. Species by global population
They are distantly related to the African ostriches and Australia's emu (the largest and second-largest living ratites, respectively), with rheas placing just behind the emu in height and overall size. Most taxonomic authorities recognize two extant species: the greater or American rhea (Rhea americana), and the lesser or Darwin's rhea (Rhea ...
All tinamou are from the family Tinamidae, and in the larger scheme are also ratites. All ratites evolved from prehistoric flying birds, and tinamous are the closest living relative of these birds. [3] The grey tinamou has several subspecies: T. t. larensis with a range in the montane forests of central Colombia and northwestern Venezuela. [4]