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Taxon: Class Aves Linnaeus, 1758 - birds (bird)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  C. Linnaeus, 1758
Unavailable original name:  Plinius.
Original name, rank & spelling:  Linnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 12, 78.
Unavailable subsequent rank:  Linnaeus, C. 1735. Syst. Nat. [ed. 1]: [10].
Description/Diagnosis in Latin:  Linnaeus, C. 1758. Syst. Nat. (ed. 10) 1: 12, 78-80.

Variants

Unavailable name: Aves (Class) Plinius, nom. inval.
Subsequent clade name: Aves (Clade) Linnaeus 1758 [Gauthier 1986], nom. cl. inval.
Different rank: Aves (Infraclass) Linnaeus, 1758
Different rank: Aves (Infraclass) Linnaeus, 1758
Current rank: Aves (Subclass) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 51). [inferred]

Synonyms

Junior subjective synonym: Avialae (Subclass) Gauthier, 1986
Synonymous name: †Sauriurae (Subclass) Haeckel, 1866 Ref: PBDB: 27 Oct 2013.
Including: †Archaeornithes (Superorder) Gadow, 1893
Including: †Palaeoaves (Parvclass) Livezey & Zusi, 2007

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: vogels Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 303.

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: birds Ref: R.C. Brusca & G.J. Brusca, 1990
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