order coraciiformes meaning

Noun: order Coraciiformes

Rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies
- Coraciiformes

Type of: animal order

Part of: Aves, class Aves

Examples

They are classified in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
"' Kingfishers "'are a group of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes.
The tree kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae is one of nine in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the motmots, bee-eaters, polyphyletic.
"' Picodynastornithes "'is a clade that contains the orders Coraciiformes ( rollers and kingfishers ) and Piciformes ( woodpeckers and toucans ).
Members of this suborder are often called " true piciforms " as it was thought the jacamars of Galbulidae and puffbirds of Bucconidae ( of the other piciform suborder Galbuli ) not closely related to toucans and woodpeckers, but instead to the order Coraciiformes.