Pelecani

Pelecani is a suborder of birds in the order Pelecaniformes. It consists of shoebills, hamerkops, pelicans and their extinct relatives. It is likely the sister clade to herons,[1][2] though it could also be sister to Ardei[3]

## References

1. ↑ Reddy, S.; Kimball, R.T.; Pandey, A. et al. (2017). "Why do phylogenomic data sets yield conflicting trees? Data type influences the avian tree of life more than taxon sampling". Systematic Biology 66 (5): 857–879. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syx041. PMID 28369655.
2. ↑ Kuhl, H.; Frankl-Vilches, C.; Bakker, A. et al. (2021). "An unbiased molecular approach using 3′-UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life". Molecular Biology and Evolution 38 (1): 108–127. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa191. PMID 32781465.
3. ↑ Hackett, Shannon J.; Kimball, Rebecca T.; Reddy, Sushma et al. (2008). "A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History". Science 320 (5884): 1763–68. doi:10.1126/science.1157704. PMID 18583609. Bibcode: 2008Sci...320.1763H.

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