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- noun Plural form of
psophiid .
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Furthermore, the South American trumpeters (psophiids) share a number of characters with cariamaens and have also been regarded as part of this story by some authors.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Ah, but Mayr (2002) found that psophiids were the living sister taxon to cariamaens, correct (I don't have the paper in question)?
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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Whereas Ericson et al. (2006) had psophiids far away in Gruiformes sensu stricto with gruids and aramids.
Goodbye, my giant predatory, cursorial, flightless hoatzin Darren Naish 2006
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Furthermore, the South American trumpeters (psophiids) share a number of characters with cariamaens and have also been regarded as part of this story by some authors.
Giant hoatzins of doom Darren Naish 2006
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