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Bucerotiformes

Bird Orders

Bucerotiformes is a bird order containing the hornbills, ground hornbills, hoopoes and wood hoopoes, distributed across Africa, Asia, Europe and Melanesia. Its members were previously classified within the order Coraciiformes before being split into their own order.

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Taxonomic Rank
Order 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Bucerotiformes
Taxonomic rank (Wikipedia confirms the entity; rank from slug/structure-wave classification)View the Source
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