Definition of Order Dinornithiformes

1. Noun. A ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand.

Exact synonyms: Dinornithiformes
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Aves, Class Aves
Member holonyms: Dinornithidae, Family Dinornithidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Dinornithiformes

order Cycadales
order Cycadofilicales
order Cyclostomata
order Cydippea
order Cydippida
order Cydippidea
order Cypriniformes
order Decapoda
order Dermaptera
order Dermoptera
order Diapensiales
order Dicranales
order Dictyoptera
order Dinocerata
order Dinoflagellata
order Dinornithiformes (current term)
order Diptera
order Discocephali
order Ebenales
order Edentata
order Embiodea
order Embioptera
order Endomycetales
order Entomophthorales
order Ephemerida
order Ephemeroptera
order Equisetales
order Ericales
order Erysiphales
order Eubacteriales

Literary usage of Order Dinornithiformes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1897)
"... notes on the skull, sternum, and shoulder-girdle ; CW ANDREWS, Ibis, 1896, pp. 376-389, pis. viii & ix. Order DINORNITHIFORMES. ..."

2. Вестник зоологии. Отдельний выпуск by НАН Украины, Instytut zoolohiï (Akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukraïnsʹkoï RSR), Instytut zoolohiï im. I.I. Shmalʹhauzena (1902)
"C. rothschildi, n. sp., loc. Î; MATSCHIE, J. Ornith. 1901, p. 268: is from 1901, pp. 194-196. Berau Peninsula ; ROTHSCHILD, tcp 361. Order DINORNITHIFORMES. ..."

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