Pici is one of the two suborders of the order
Piciformes. It includes two infraorders,
Ramphastides (toucans and barbets) and
Picides (honeyguides and woodpeckers). Members of this suborder have been called "true piciforms", as the jacamars of
Galbulidae
The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of birds from tropical South and Central America, extending up to Mexico. The family contains five genera and 18 species. The family is closely related to the puffbirds, another Neotropical
The Neotro ...
and puffbirds of
Bucconidae (of the other piciform suborder
Galbuli) were for a time thought to be not closely related to toucans and woodpeckers, but instead to the order
Coraciiformes
The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colourful birds including the kingfishers, the bee-eaters, the rollers, the motmots, and the todies. They generally have syndactyly, with three forward-pointing toes (and toes 3 & 4 fused at their b ...
.
[ Sibley, Charles Gald & Ahlquist, Jon Edward (1990): ''Phylogeny and classification of birds''. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.] However, analysis of nuclear DNA confirmed that Galbuli and Pici are sister groups, and thus their similarities such as
zygodactyl feet were inherited from their common ancestor.
Some classifications continue to treat Galbuli as a separate order (Galbuliformes), in which case Piciformes becomes equivalent in scope to Pici.
References
External links
Tree of Life Piciformes
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Extant Rupelian first appearances