Taxon of birds
Phaethoquornithes is a clade of birds that contains Eurypygimorphae and Aequornithes ,[ 4] which was first recovered by genome analysis in 2014.[ 5] Members of Eurypygimorphae were originally classified in the obsolete group Metaves ,[clarification needed ] and Aequornithes were classified as the sister taxon to Musophagiformes or Gruiformes .[ 6] [ 7]
This group has also been informally called Ardeae .[ 8] Older classifications have used Ardeae in a different sense, as a suborder of Ciconiiformes containing herons and related species.[ 9]
Cladogram based on Kuhl et al . (2020),[ 2] with clade names following Sangster et al (2022).[ 4]
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