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Clade of birds
Telluraves (also called land birds or core landbirds ) is a recently defined
[2] clade of
birds defined by their arboreality.
[3] Based on most recent genetic studies, the clade unites a variety of bird groups, including the
australavians (
passerines ,
parrots ,
seriemas , and
falcons ) as well as the
afroavians (including the
Accipitrimorphae –
eagles ,
hawks ,
buzzards ,
vultures etc. –
owls and
woodpeckers , among others).
[4] They appear to be the
sister group of the
Phaethoquornithes .
[5]
Given that the most basal extant members of both Afroaves (Accipitrimorphae, Strigiformes) and Australaves (Cariamiformes, Falconiformes) are carnivorous, it has been suggested that the last common ancestor of all Telluraves was probably a predator.
[5] Other researchers are skeptical of this assessment, citing the herbivorous cariamiform
Strigogyps as evidence to the contrary.
[6]
Afroaves has not always been recovered as a monophyletic clade in subsequent studies.
[7] For instance, Prum et al. (2015) recovered the accipitrimorphs as the sister group to a clade (Eutelluraves) comprising the remaining Afroavian orders and
Australaves .,
[8] while an analysis by Houde et al . (2019) recovered a clade of accipitrimorphs and owls as sister to the remaining landbirds.
[9] Wu et al. (2024) also found recovered and found support the clade of accipitrimorphs and owls (which they have named
Hieraves ), but found the clade to be sister to Australaves, while Coraciimorphae is the basal most clade in Telluraves.
[10]
Cladogram of Telluraves relationships based on Braun & Kimball (2021)
[11]
References
^ Daniel T. Ksepka; Thomas A. Stidham; Thomas E. Williamson (2017).
"Early Paleocene landbird supports rapid phylogenetic and morphological diversification of crown birds after the K–Pg mass extinction" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 114 (30): 8047–8052.
Bibcode :
2017PNAS..114.8047K .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1700188114 .
PMC
5544281 .
PMID
28696285 .
^ Yuri, T.; Kimball, R.T.; Harshman, J.; Bowie, R.C.K.; Braun, M.J.; Chojnowski, J.L.; Han, K.-L.; Hackett, S.J.; Huddleston, C.J.; Moore, W.S.; Reddy, S.; Sheldon, F.H.; Steadman, D.W.; Witt, C.C.; Braun, E.L. (2013).
"Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals" . Biology . 2 (1): 419–444.
doi :
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PMC
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^ Crouch, N.M.A.; Ramanauskas, K.; Igić, B. (2019). "Tip-dating and the origin of Telluraves". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 131 : 55–63.
doi :
10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.006 .
PMID
30385308 .
S2CID
53767029 .
^ Ericson, P. G. (2012).
"Evolution of terrestrial birds in three continents: biogeography and parallel radiations" (PDF) . Journal of Biogeography . 39 (5): 813–824.
Bibcode :
2012JBiog..39..813E .
doi :
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02650.x .
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^
a
b
Jarvis, E. D. ; Mirarab, S.; Aberer, A. J.; Li, B.; Houde, P.; Li, C.; Ho, S. Y. W.; Faircloth, B. C.; Nabholz, B.; Howard, J. T.; Suh, A.; Weber, C. C.; Da Fonseca, R. R.; Li, J.; Zhang, F.; Li, H.; Zhou, L.; Narula, N.; Liu, L.; Ganapathy, G.; Boussau, B.; Bayzid, M. S.; Zavidovych, V.; Subramanian, S.; Gabaldon, T.; Capella-Gutierrez, S.; Huerta-Cepas, J.; Rekepalli, B.; Munch, K.; et al. (2014).
"Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds" (PDF) . Science . 346 (6215): 1320–1331.
Bibcode :
2014Sci...346.1320J .
doi :
10.1126/science.1253451 .
hdl :
10072/67425 .
PMC
4405904 .
PMID
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^ Mayr, Gerald; Richter, Gotthard (2011).
"Exceptionally preserved plant parenchyma in the digestive tract indicates a herbivorous diet in the Middle Eocene bird Strigogyps sapea (Ameghinornithidae)" . Paläontologische Zeitschrift . 85 (3): 303–307.
Bibcode :
2011PalZ...85..303M .
doi :
10.1007/s12542-010-0094-5 .
S2CID
84479974 .
^ Kuhl., H.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Bakker, A.; Mayr, G.; Nikolaus, G.; Boerno, S. T.; Klages, S.; Timmermann, B.; Gahr, M. (2020).
"An unbiased molecular approach using 3'-UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life" . Molecular Biology and Evolution . 38 : 108–127.
doi :
10.1093/molbev/msaa191 .
PMC
7783168 .
PMID
32781465 .
^ Prum, R.O. et al . (2015)
A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing . Nature 526, 569–573.
^ Houde, Peter; Braun, Edward L.; Narula, Nitish; Minjares, Uriel; Mirarab, Siavash (2019).
"Phylogenetic signal of indels and the Neoavian radiation" . Diversity . 11 (7): 108.
doi :
10.3390/d11070108 .
^ Wu, S.; Rheindt, F.E.; Zhang, J.; Wang, J.; Zhang, L.; Quan, C.; Zhiheng, L.; Wang, M.; Wu, F.; Qu, Y; Edwards, S.V.; Zhou, Z.; Liu, L. (2024).
"Genomes, fossils, and the concurrent rise of modern birds and flowering plants in the Late Cretaceous" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 121 (8).
doi :
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PMC
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^ Braun, Edward L.; Kimball, Rebecca T. (2021).
"Data types and the phylogeny of Neoaves" . Birds . 2 (1): 1–22.
doi :
10.3390/birds2010001 .