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- Apodiformes abstract "Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three living families: the swifts (Apodidae), the tree swifts (Hemiprocnidae), and the hummingbirds (Trochilidae). In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this order is raised to a superorder Apodimorphae in which hummingbirds are separated as a new order, Trochiliformes. With nearly 450 species identified to date, they are the most diverse order of birds after the passerines.As their name ("footless" in Greek) suggests, their legs are small and have limited function aside from perching. The feet are covered with bare skin rather than the scales (scutes) that other birds have. Another shared characteristic is long wings with short, stout humerus bones (Hyman 1992). The evolution of these wing characteristics has provided the hummingbird with ideal wings for hovering (Mayr 2002).The hummingbirds, swifts and crested swifts share other anatomical similarities with one another as well as similarities (notably as to the skull) with their probable closest living relatives, the owlet-nightjars (Mayr, 2002). The owlet-nightjars are apparently convergent with the closely related Caprimulgiformes, which form a clade Cypselomorphae with the Apodiformes (Mayr, 2002).Apodiformes evolved in the Northern Hemisphere. Eocypselus, a primitive genus known from the Late Paleocene or Early Eocene of north-central Europe, is somewhat difficult to assign; Dyke et al. (2004) consider it a primitive hemiprocnid.Most researchers believe that presently this genus cannot be unequivocally assigned to either the Apodiformes or the Caprimulgiformes. The Early Eocene Primapus, found in England, is similar to both a primitive swift and the aegialornithids, which are in some aspects intermediate between swifts and owlet-nightjars. Fossil evidence demonstrates the existence of swifts during that period in Europe. At that time most of Europe had a humid, subtropical climate, possibly comparable to modern-day southern China. For a map of Early–Middle Eocene Earth, see the Paleomap project; here note that both the Caucasus mountains and the Alps did not exist yet and aegialornithids were possibly present in North America.By the late Eocene (around 35 MYA), primitive hummingbirds started to diverge from the related jungornithids; the Middle Eocene Parargornis (Messel, Germany) and the Late Eocene Argornis, found in today's southernmost Russia, belong to this lineage. Cypselavus (Late Eocene – Early Oligocene of Quercy, France) was either a primitive hemiprocnid or an aegialornithid.The placement of the Aegialornithidae is not quite clear. Various analyses place them sufficiently close to the Apodiformes to be included here, or into the unique owlet-nightjar lineage in the Cypselomorphae.ORDER APODIFORMES Family Aegialornithidae (fossil) Family Jungornithidae (fossil) Family Trochilidae – hummingbirds Family Apodidae – swifts Family Hemiprocnidae – treeswifts".
- Apodiformes class Bird.
- Apodiformes class Neognathae.
- Apodiformes kingdom Animal.
- Apodiformes order Cypselomorphae.
- Apodiformes phylum Chordate.
- Apodiformes synonym "Apodimorphae".
- Apodiformes thumbnail Rubythroathummer65.jpg?width=300.
- Apodiformes wikiPageExternalLink Bull51-1-77-85.pdf.
- Apodiformes wikiPageExternalLink GM_AUK120.pdf.
- Apodiformes wikiPageExternalLink books?id=VKlWjdOkiMwC.
- Apodiformes wikiPageExternalLink caprimulgiformes.pdf.
- Apodiformes wikiPageID "210314".
- Apodiformes wikiPageLength "5956".
- Apodiformes wikiPageOutDegree "54".
- Apodiformes wikiPageRevisionID "668492069".
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Aegialornis.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Aegialornithidae.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Alps.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Apodidae.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Argornis.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Auk_(journal).
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Aves.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Caprimulgiformes.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Category:Apodiformes.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Category:Bird_orders.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Caucasus_Mountains.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Caucasus_mountains.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink China.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Chordata.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Chordate.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Clade.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Convergent_evolution.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Cypselavus.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Cypselomorphae.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Eocene.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Eocypselus.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Europe.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Evolution.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Greek_language.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Hemiprocnidae.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Humerus.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Hummingbird.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink James_L._Peters.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink James_Lee_Peters.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Jungornithidae.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Late_Paleocene.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Apodiformes_by_population.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Messel_pit.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Mya_(unit).
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Neognathae.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Neornithes.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Order_(biology).
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Owlet-nightjar.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Paleocene.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Parargornis.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Passerine.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Primapus.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Ruby-throated_hummingbird.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Russia.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Sibley-Ahlquist_taxonomy.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Sibley–Ahlquist_taxonomy_of_birds.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Superorder.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Swift.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Thanetian.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink The_Auk.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Tree_swift.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Treeswift.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Trochilidae.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLink Year.
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLinkText "Apodiformes".
- Apodiformes wikiPageWikiLinkText "apodiform".
- Apodiformes classis Aves.
- Apodiformes classis Bird.
- Apodiformes fossilRange "Late Paleocene to present".
- Apodiformes hasPhotoCollection Apodiformes.
- Apodiformes imageCaption Ruby-throated_hummingbird.
- Apodiformes imageWidth "200".
- Apodiformes infraclassis Neognathae.
- Apodiformes name "Apodiformes".
- Apodiformes ordo "Apodiformes".
- Apodiformes ordoAuthority "Peters, 1940".
- Apodiformes phylum Chordata.
- Apodiformes phylum Chordate.
- Apodiformes rangeMap "Swift range.png".
- Apodiformes rangeMapCaption "Range of the swifts and hummingbirds.".
- Apodiformes regnum "Animalia".
- Apodiformes subclassis Bird.
- Apodiformes subclassis Neornithes.
- Apodiformes subdivision Apodidae.
- Apodiformes subdivision Swift.
- Apodiformes subdivision "For fossil forms, see text".
- Apodiformes subdivision "Hemiprocnidae".
- Apodiformes subdivision "Trochilidae".
- Apodiformes subdivisionRanks "Families".
- Apodiformes synonyms "Apodimorphae".