Struthionidae
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| Struthionids Temporal range: Eocene-Holocene 40–0 Ma | |
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| Ostrich (Struthio camelus), male and female | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Struthioniformes Latham, 1790 |
| Family: | Struthionidae Vigors, 1825[1] |
| Type species | |
| Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Genera | |
Struthionidae is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared during the Eocene epoch. It is today represented by the sole living genus Struthio, but also contains several extinct genera.[2] Traditionally the orderStruthioniformes contain the world's ratites, but recent genetic analysis has found that the group is not monophletyic, as it paraphyletic in respect to the tinamous.[3][4]
Taxonomy[edit]
- †Palaeotis weigelti Lambrecht 1928 [Palaeogrus geiseltalensis Lambrecht 1935; Ornitocnemus geiseltalensis (Lambrecht 1935) Brodkorb 1967] (middle Eocene)
- †Orientornis linxiaensis (Hou et al. 2005) Wang 2008 [Struthio linxiaensis Hou et al. 2005]
- Struthio Linnaeus 1758 [Palaeostruthio Burchak-Abramovich 1953; Struthiolithus Brandt 1873; (Pachystruthio) Kretzoi 1954a] (Early Miocene – Recent)
- †S. anderssoni Lowe 1931 [ootaxa]
- †S. chersonensis Brandt 1873 [Struthiolithus chersonensis Brandt 1873 [ootaxa]; Struthio novorossicus Alekseev 1916; Struthio brachydactylus Burchak-Abramovich 1949; Palaeostruthio sternatus Burchak-Abramovich 1953; Struthio (Pachystruthio) pannonicus Kretzoi 1954a; Struthiolithus alexejevi Roščin, 1962 [ootaxa]; Struthiolithus adzalycensis Roščin, 1962 [ootaxa]; Struthio orlovi Kuročkin & Lungo 1970]
- †S. daberasensis Pickford, Senut & Dauphin 1995 [Struthiolithus chersonensis Brandt 1873 [ootaxa]]
- †S. kakesiensis Harrison & Msuya 2005 [ootaxa]
- †S. karingarabensis Senut, Dauphin & Pickford 1998 [ootaxa]
- †S. mongolicus [ootaxa] (Inner Mongolia)
- †S. asiaticus Brodkorb 1863 [Struthio indicus (Bidwell 1910)] (Asian ostrich)
- †S. coppensi Mourer-Chauviré et al. 1996
- †S. dmanisensis Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua 1990
- †S. karatheodoris Forsyth Major 1888
- †S. oldawayi Lowe 1933
- †S. wimani Lowe 1931
- †S. transcaucasicus Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua 1971
- S. molybdophanes Reichenow 1883 [Struthio camelus molybdophanes Reichenow 1883] (Somali ostrich)
- S. camelus Linnaeus 1758 [Struthio camelus rothschildi; Struthio camelus spatzi; Avis struthio]
- S. c. australis Gurney 1868 (South African ostrich)
- †S. c. syriacus Rothschild 1919 (Arabian ostrich)
- S. c. camelus Linnaeus 1758 (North African ostrich)
- S. c. massaicus Neumann 1898 (Masai Ostrich)