Coraciimorphae is a clade of birds that contains the order Coliiformes (mousebirds) and the clade Cavitaves (a large assemblage of birds that includes woodpeckers, kingfishers and trogons).[2][3][4][5] The name however was coined in the 1990s by Sibley and Ahlquist based on their DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.[6] However their Coraciimorphae only contains Trogoniformes and Coraciiformes.
| Coraciimorphae | |
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| Speckled mousebird (Colius striatus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Telluraves |
| Clade: | Coraciimorphae Sibley & Ahlquist, 1990 |
| Subclades | |
Taxonomy
| Coraciimorphae |
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Cladogram of Coraciimorphae relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014)[5] with some clade names after Yuri, T. et al. (2013).[7]