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Topic: Leptosomidae

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		The Cuckoo Roller, Leptosomus discolor, is the only bird in the family Leptosomatidae, part of the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Leptosomidae.html (163 words)

	Abstracts for PaleoBios 22(1-3)
		Further support is given to the reduced distal expansion of the deltopectoral crest as an azhdarchid synapomorphy.
		Accordingly, the genus Plesiocathartes is tentatively assigned to the Leptosomidae.
		If this classification is correct, it would be the first Tertiary fossil record of the Leptosomidae, and indicate that the extant distribution of this family is relictual.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /museum/pbios/abstracts22_1to3.html (1413 words)

	Digimorph - Alcedo cristata (Malachite kingfisher)
		Females deposit approximately 3-6 round, white eggs into a nest composed of fish bones and disgorged pellets (Fry et al., 1992).
		Kingfishers are members of ‘Coraciiformes’, which traditionally includes Leptosomidae, Coraciidae, Brachypteraciidae, Upupidae, Phoeniculidae, Bucerotidae, Meropidae, Todidae, and Momotidae (Mayr et al., 2003).
		Although the coraciiforms may not be a natural grouping, there is evidence (both morphological and molecular) that Alcedinidae (kingfishers), Meropidae, Momotidae, and Todidae form a monophyletic group (Maurer and Raikow, 1981; Burton, 1984; Sibley and Ahlquist, 1990; Mayr et al., 2003).
	www.digimorph.org /specimens/Alcedo_cristata/whole (638 words)

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