10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRUIFORM»
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Donald Farner. The gruiform—charadriiform assemblage is to the remaining
waterbirds what the “basal” land bird assemblage is to the “higher” land birds.
Among the “higher” waterbirds, the Pelecaniformes, Procellariiformes,
Gaviiformes, and ...
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Avian Molecular Evolution and Systematics
Sampling Considerations We used 17 gruiform species to represent an order that
includes 196. Thus, auta— pomorphies of the species sampled may be mistaken
for synapomorphies of families (e.g., Patterson et al., 1993). This problem is ...
3
A comparative study of the egg white proteins of some ...
Gruiform Birds as Defined by Peters (l934) and Wetmore (l960) 2 2. Gruiform
Birds According to Cuvier (l8l7) .... 4 3. Gruiform Birds According to Huxley (l867)
.... 8 4. Gruiform Birds According to FQrbringer (l888) . . l2 5. Characters Used to ...
Herbert Thomas Hendrickson, 1966
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Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds
For example, in a prior analysis of gruiform birds (Livezey, 1998), a truly
remarkable gruiform genus Aptornis was resolved to be extremely apomorphic,
reflected by a very long terminal branch in the global tree. However, a criticism of
its ...
Dr. Gareth Dyke, Gary Kaiser, 2011
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The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand
They found that Aptornis was a gruiform that branched off the main evolutionary
lineage immediately before the rails. Moreover, they found that Psophia was
closely associated with Aptornis on the tree. They found no support for the
suggestion ...
T. H. Worthy, Richard N. Holdaway, 2002
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Perspectives in Ornithology: Essays Presented for the ...
Like many early ground predators, it had many gruiform characters. New World
vultures (Cathartidae) occurred in Europe in the middle Eocene of Germany and
apparently radiated substantially in the European Oligocene (Cracraft and Rich ...
Alan Howard Brush, George Alfred Clark, 1983
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Avian Malaria Parasites and other Haemosporidia
(1975a) consider H. tendeiroi to be a distinct species only because this parasite
develops in gruiform birds of the family Otididae. and H. antigonis was originally
described from the gruiform birds of the family Gruidae. As discussed above in ...
Gediminas Valkiunas, 2004
8
Avian Growth and Development: Evolution Within the ...
The same is true of the transition that reverted back to precocial development at
the base of the ciconiiform-gruiform lineage and perhaps at the base of the
strigimorph lineage. When the first of these transitions occurred, there were only ...
J. Matthias Starck, Robert E. Ricklefs, 1998
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Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Zoology. 2nd ser
A modification of the Limieoline-Gruiform metacentre is found in many of the
simpler Charadriidae such as Numenius, and consists in the gradual shaping of
Meckel's tract into three loops and a supra-duodenal loop. Of the three, one is
axial ...
Linnean Society of London, 1903
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The New Encyclopædia Britannica
Gruiform birds have a predilection for travel on foot. Many only fly when pressed,
and some, like the mesites, have become flightless or nearly so. Many oceanic
islands have been colonized by rails, which then evolved flightlessness in the ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRUIFORM»
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Bird of the Week: La Tanrrilla – the Sunbittern
When seen as a gruiform, the Kagu is generally considered related to the extinct adzebills from New Zealand and the Sunbittern from Central ... «Crikey, Jan 13»
