https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Pelecanidae Pelecanidae - Revision history 2026-08-28T19:36:07Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.6 https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pelecanidae&diff=423428&oldid=prev Ajay Kumar: Created a new article 2023-08-30T20:17:52Z <p>Created a new article</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Family of birds}}<br /> {{Automatic taxobox<br /> | name = Pelecanidae<br /> | fossil_range = Late [[Eocene]]-Recent, {{fossilrange|37.17|0}}&lt;ref name=&quot;Louchart2010&quot;&gt;{{cite journal |author1=Louchart, Antoine |author2=Tourment, Nicolas |author3=Carrier, Julie |year=2011 |title=The Earliest Known Pelican Reveals 30 Million Years of Evolutionary Stasis in Beak Morphology |journal=Journal of Ornithology |volume=150 |issue=1 |pages=15–20 |doi=10.1007/s10336-010-0537-5|s2cid=21016885 }}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;small&gt;Possible early origin based on [[molecular clock]]&lt;ref name=Kuhletal2020&gt;{{cite journal | first1 = H. | last1 = Kuhl. | first2 = C. | last2 = Frankl-Vilches | first3 = A. | last3 = Bakker | first4 = G. | last4 = Mayr | first5 = G. | last5 = Nikolaus | first6 = S. T. | last6 = Boerno | first7 = S. | last7 = Klages | first8 = B. | last8 = Timmermann | first9 = M. | last9 = Gahr | year = 2020 | title = An unbiased molecular approach using 3&#039;UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life. | journal = Molecular Biology and Evolution | volume = 38 | pages = 108–127 | doi = 10.1093/molbev/msaa191 | pmid = 32781465 | pmc = 7783168 | doi-access = free }}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;/small&gt;<br /> | image = Pelikan Walvis Bay.jpg<br /> | image_caption = A [[great white pelican]] in breeding condition flying over [[Walvis Bay]], [[Namibia]].<br /> | taxon = Pelecanidae<br /> | authority = [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1815<br /> | type_genus = &#039;&#039;[[Pelican|Pelecanus]]&#039;&#039;<br /> | type_genus_authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758<br /> | subdivision_ranks = Genera<br /> | subdivision = <br /> *{{extinct}}&#039;&#039;[[Eopelecanus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;El Adli &#039;&#039;et al.&#039;&#039;, 2021&lt;/small&gt;<br /> *{{extinct}}&#039;&#039;[[Miopelecanus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Milne-Edwards, 1863&lt;/small&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite journal |author= Milne-Edwards |author-link= Alphonse Milne-Edwards |year= 1863|title= Les oiseaux aquatiques (Gaviiformes a Anseriformes) du gisement Aquitanien de Saint-Gerand-le-Puy (Allier, France): revision systematique |journal= Palaeovertebrata (Montpellier) |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages= 33–115}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> *&#039;&#039;[[Pelican|Pelecanus]]&#039;&#039; &lt;small&gt;Linnaeus, 1758&lt;/small&gt;<br /> }}<br /> <br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;Pelecanidae&#039;&#039;&#039; is a family of [[Pelecaniformes|pelecaniform]] birds within the [[Pelecani]] that contains three genera: the extinct &#039;&#039;[[Eopelecanus]]&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;[[Miopelecanus]]&#039;&#039; and the extant &#039;&#039;[[Pelecanus]]&#039;&#039;. <br /> <br /> Pelecanids have existed since the late [[Eocene]] ([[Priabonian]])&lt;ref name=Eopelecanus&gt;{{Cite journal|last1=El Adli|first1=Joseph J.|last2=Wilson Mantilla|first2=Jeffrey A.|last3=Antar|first3=Mohammed Sameh M.|last4=Gingerich|first4=Philip D.|date=2021-06-02|title=The earliest recorded fossil pelican, recovered from the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2021.1903910|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=41|language=en|pages=e1903910|doi=10.1080/02724634.2021.1903910|s2cid=236269386|issn=0272-4634}}&lt;/ref&gt; and they still exist today.&lt;ref&gt;{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51922852|title=Firefly encyclopedia of birds|chapter=Pelicans|date=2003|publisher=Firefly Books|others=Christopher M. Perrins|isbn=1-55297-777-3|location=Buffalo, N.Y.|oclc=51922852|page=78-81}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref name=&quot;linnaeus&quot;&gt;{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=C. | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | title=Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata |location=Holmiae|publisher=Laurentii Salvii| year=1758| volume=1 | language = la |quote = Rostrum edentulum, rectum: apice adunco, unguiculato. Nares lineares. Facies nuda. Pedes digitís omnibus palmatis. |pages=132–34|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727037}}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> *{{Commons and category-inline|Pelecanidae|Pelecanidae}}<br /> *{{Wikispecies-inline|Pelecanidae}}<br /> <br /> {{Pelecaniformes}}<br /> {{Birds}}<br /> {{Taxonbar|from=Q11846678}}<br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Pelecaniformes| ]]<br /> [[Category:Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque]]<br /> [[Category:Bird families]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{pelecaniformes-stub}}</div> Ajay Kumar