Struthionidae

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Kingdom Animalia Height Ostrich: 2.1 – 2.8 m Phylum Chordata Speed Ostrich: 70 km/h		Scientific name Struthionidae Mass Ostrich: 120 kg Higher classification Rheas

Order Struthioniformes Latham, 1790 Family Struthionidae Vigors, 1825 Lower classifications Ostrich, Ostriches

Struthionidae is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared during the Miocene epoch, though various Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene ratites may belong to this group. Traditionally the order Struthioniformes contained the world's ratites, but recent genetic analysis has found that the group is not monophletyic, as it paraphyletic in respect to the tinamous.

Taxonomy

Order Struthioniformes Latham 1790 [Struthiones; Struthioni] (ostriches)

Family Struthionidae Vigors 1825 [Struthioninae 1840 emend. Bonaparte 1849; †Struthiolithidae Vjalov 1971; †Palaeotididae Houde & Haubold 1987]

Genus ?†Palaeotis Lambrecht 1928

†P. weigelti Lambrecht 1928 [Palaeogrus geiseltalensis Lambrecht 1935; Ornitocnemus geiseltalensis (Lambrecht 1935) Brodkorb 1967] (middle Eocene)

Genus ?†Remiornis Lemoine, 1881

†Remiornis heberti Lemoine, 1881

Genus ?†Eremopezus Andrews, 1904

†Eremopezus eocaenus Andrews, 1904

Genus †Orientornis Wang 2008

†O. linxiaensis (Hou et al. 2005) Wang 2008 [Struthio linxiaensis Hou et al. 2005]

Genus Struthio Linnaeus 1758 [†Palaeostruthio Burchak-Abramovich 1953; †Struthiolithus Brandt 1873; Struthio (Pachystruthio) Kretzoi 1954a; Megaloscelornis Lydekker 1879; Autruchon Temminick 1840 fide Gray 1841 nomen nudum] (Early Miocene – Recent)

?†S. anderssoni Lowe 1931 [ootaxa]

?†S. barbarus Arambourg 1979

?†S. daberasensis Pickford, Senut & Dauphin 1995

?†S. epoasticus Bonaparte

?†S. kakesiensis Harrison & Msuya 2005 [ootaxa]

?†S. karingarabensis Senut, Dauphin & Pickford 1998 [ootaxa]

†S. chersonensis Brandt 1873 [Struthiolithus chersonensis Brandt 1873 [ootaxa]; Struthio novorossicus Alekseev 1916; Struthio brachydactylus Burchak-Abramovich 1949 (Short-toed ostrich); Palaeostruthio sternatus Burchak-Abramovich 1953; Struthio pannonicus Kretzoi 1954a; Struthiolithus alexejevi Roščin, 1962 [ootaxa]; Struthiolithus adzalycensis Roščin, 1962 [ootaxa]; Struthio orlovi Kuročkin & Lungo 1970; Struthio karatheodoris Forsyth Major 1888]

†S. asiaticus Brodkorb 1863 [Struthio indicus (Bidwell 1910); Struthio palaeindica Falconer 1868 nomen nudum; Megaloscelornis sivalensis Lydekker 1879] (Asian ostrich)

†S. coppensi Mourer-Chauviré et al. 1996

†S. dmanisensis Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua 1990 (giant ostrich)

†S. mongolicus [ootaxa] (Inner Mongolia)

†S. oldawayi Lowe 1933

†S. transcaucasicus Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua 1971

†S. wimani Lowe 1931

S. molybdophanes Reichenow 1883 [Struthio camelus molybdophanes Reichenow 1883] (Somali ostrich)

S. camelus Linnaeus 1758 [Avis struthio; ?†Struthio bidactylus (Gray 1847); Autruchon bidactylus Temminick 1840 fide Gray 1841 nomen nudum; Charadrius bidactylus Gray 1847 (Levaillant's/didactyle dwarf ostrich)]

S. c. australis (Gurney 1868) [Struthio australis Gurney 1868; Struthio camelus meridionalis] (South African ostrich)

†S. c. syriacus Rothschild 1919 (Arabian ostrich)

S. c. camelus Linnaeus 1758 [Struthio camelus rothschildi Grant & Mackworth-Praed 1951] (North African ostrich)

S. c. massaicus (Neumann 1898) [Struthio massaicus Neumann 1898] (Masai Ostrich)

References

Struthionidae Wikipedia

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