Gruiformes

Translingual

Rallus aquaticus

Etymology

Grus (“genus of cranes”) +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Gruiformes

1. A taxonomic order within the class Reptilia.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Aramidae (limpkins), Gruidae (cranes), Heliornithidae (finfoots), Psophiidae (trumpeters), Rallidae (rails), Sarothruridae (flufftails) – extant families

References

• Gruiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gruiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Gruiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gruiformes at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
• Gruiformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Gruiformes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Grues”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.