Tropicbirds are a faimily, Phaethontidae, o tropical pelagic seabirds nou classified in thair ain order Phaethontiformes.
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Tropicbirds
Temporal range: Early Eocene tae present |
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| Reid-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus mesonauta) |
Scientific classification  |
| Kinrick: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Chordata |
| Cless: |
Aves |
| Clade: |
Eurypygimorphae |
| Order: |
Phaethontiformes
Sharpe, 1891 |
| Faimily: |
Phaethontidae
Brandt, 1840 |
| Genus: |
Phaethon
Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species |
- P. aethereus
- P. rubricauda
- P. lepturus
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| Synonyms[1] |
- Leptophaethon Mathews 1913
- Lepturus Moehring 1752 nom rej.
- Lepturus Brisson 1760
- Scaeophaethon Mathews 1913
- Phoenicurus Bonaparte 1855 non Forster 1817
- Tropicophilus Stephens 1826
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