Cuculidae

Cuculidae sunt familia avium, solum taxon ordinis Cuculiformium.^[1][2][3] Familia insigniter comprehendit Cuculum canorum, Geococcyges, Eudynamyses, Phaenicophaeum, Couas, Centropodes, Crotophagas. Centropodes et Crotophagae aliquando in familias separatas digeruntur, Centropodidas et Crotophagidas proprie appellatas. Cuculiformes sunt unus ex tribus ordinibus qui una Otidimorphas constituunt, quorum alii sunt Musophagidae et Otididae (olim Otidae appellatae).

Cacomantis flabelliformis)

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Animalia — Chordata

Classis : Aves 
Infraclassis : Neognathae 
Ordo : Cuculiformes 
Wagler, 1830
Familia : Cuculidae 
Leach, 1820

   

Palaeontologia

Eocaeno - Holocanum, 34–0 m.a.: 

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Subdivisiones: Genera

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Species typica

Cuculus canorus Linnaeus, 1758

Cuculidae plerumque sunt aves magnitudine a parva ad mediam. Plurimae species in arboribus habitant. sed multae in solo degunt. Familiae est distributio cosmopolita, quamquam plurimae species in zona tropica habitant. Nonnullae species migratoriae sunt. Cuculidae insectis, larvis insectorum. variisque animalibus parvis vescuntur, cum fructibus. Nonnullae species sunt parasiti feturae, ova in nidis aliarum specierum parientes, sed maior pars suos iuvenes alunt.

Cuculidae partes in cultura hominum nonnulla millennia egerunt. In mythologia Graeca antiqua, Herae deae sacrae sunt. Latissime in Europa, cum vere consociantur, atque adeo cum dedecore sexuali, exempli gratia, in Love's Labour's Lost Gulielmi Shakesperii. In India, Kamadevae sacrae sunt, deo desiderii et appetitus. In Iaponia, amorem inultum repraesentant.

Taxinomia et systematica

Cladistica

Cuculiformes vivi, apud Sorenson et Payne 2005:^[4]

Classificatio Cuculiformium

Crotophaginae Guira Crotophaga Neomorphinae Taperini Tapera Dromococcyx Neomorphini Morococcyx Geococcyx Neomorphus Centropodinae Centropodini Centropus Couini Carpococcyx Coua Cuculinae Rhinorthini Rhinortha Phaenicophaeini Ceuthmochares Taccocua Zanclostomus Phaenicophaeus Dasylophus Rhamphococcyx Clamator Coccycua Piaya Coccyzus Cuculini Pachycoccyx Microdynamis Eudynamys Scythrops Urodynamis Chrysococcyx Cacomantis Surniculus Cercococcyx Hierococcyx Cuculus

Genera

Phaenicophaeus curvirostris, multarum Phaenicophaeinarum similis, cutem clare coloratam circa oculum habet.

Coua caerulea.

Coccyzus americanus.

Neomorphus geoffroyi.

Centropus superciliosus.

• Basalia vel incertae sedis
  • Genus Dynamopterus (fossile)
  • Genus Cursoricoccyx (fossile)
  • Cuculidae gen. et sp. indet. (fossile)
  • Genus Nannococcyx (exstinctus)
• Subfamilia Cuculinae
  • Genus Eocuculus (fossile^[5]
  • Genus Clamator (4 species)
  • Genus Pachycoccyx
  • Genus Cuculus (11 species)
  • Genus Hierococcyx (8 species)
  • Genus Cercococcyx (3 species)
  • Genus Cacomantis (10 species)
  • Genus Chrysococcyx (13 species)
  • Genus Surniculus (4 species)
  • Genus Microdynamis
  • Genus Eudynamys (4 species, una praehistorica)^[6]
  • Genus Urodynamis
  • Genus Scythrops
• Subfamilia Phaenicophaeinae
  • Genus Ceuthmochares (2 species)
  • Genus Rhinortha (aliquando in Phaenicophaeos; fortasse hic melius digesta)
  • Genus Zanclostomus
  • Genus Phaenicophaeus (9 species)
  • Genus Taccocua
  • Genus Carpococcyx (3 species)
  • Genus Coua (9 species vivae, 1 nuper exstincta)
• Subfamilia Coccyzinae^[7]
  • Genus Coccyzus (13 species)
  • Genus Coccycua olim in Coccyzo et Piaya (3 species)
  • Genus Piaya (2 species)
• Subfamilia Neomorphinae
  • Genus Neococcyx (fossile: Oligocaenum inferius Americae Septentrionalis mediae)
  • Genus Tapera
  • Genus Dromococcyx (2 species)
  • Genus Morococcyx
  • Genus Geococcyx (2 species)
  • Genus Neomorphus (5 species)
• Subfamilia Centropodinae
  • Genus Centropus (30 fere species)
• Subfamilia Crotophaginae
  • Genus Crotophaga (3 species)
  • Genus Guira