Order

Piciformes (Woodpeckers, barbets, and allies)

Melanerpes formicivorus. Photo: (c) Dmitry Mozzherin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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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 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. However, analysis of nuclear DNA confirmed that Galbuli…

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Subtaxa

Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers)

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