Galloanseri

Translingual

typical Galloanseri

Etymology

From Galloanserae (“unranked clade with same circumscription”) +‎ -i. From Latin gallus (“rooster”) + ānser (“goose”)

Proper noun

Galloanseri

A taxonomic superorder within the infraclass Neognathae – fowl: gamefowl and waterfowl.

Synonyms

(superorder): Galloanserae - clade

Hypernyms

(superorder): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Tetrapoda - superclass; Reptilia - class; Aves - subclass; Neognathae - infraclass

Hyponyms

(superorder): Anseriformes, Galliformes - orders

References

Fowl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aves (classifications) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Galloanserae at Avian Taxonomy in Flux
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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