Balaenicipitidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Pelecaniformes
- Family
- Balaenicipitidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Balaenicipitidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Balaenicipitidae
Balaenicipitidae is a family of birds in the order Pelecaniformes, although it was traditionally placed in Ciconiiformes. The shoebill is the sole extant species and its closest relative is the hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), which belongs to another family. Species from the Ciconiiformes and Balaenicipitidae family have been found in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and parts of East Africa.
It has the following genera:
- Balaeniceps
- †Goliathia (might belong in Balaeniceps)
- †Paludiavis
Balaenicipitidae in languages:
- Bokmål
- Treskonebbfamilien
- Chinese
- 鯨頭鸛科
- Czech
- člunozobcovití
- Dutch
- Schoenbekooievaars
- English
- Shoebills
- Estonian
- Kingnoklased
- Finnish
- kenkänokat
- Georgian
- ვეშაპთავა ყანჩა
- German
- Schuhschnäbel
- Hebrew
- מנעלן
- Hungarian
- Papucscsőrű madár
- Lithuanian
- Klumpiasnapis
- Polish
- Trzewikodziób
- Portuguese
- Bico-de-sapato
- Romanian
- Abumarkub
- Serbian
- Roda cipelarka
- Slovene
- Čevljekljun
- Swahili
- Korongo-nyangumi
- Swedish
- Träskonäbb
- Thai
- วงศ์ นกกระสาปากพลั่ว
- Thai
- นกกระสาปากพลั่ว
- Turkish
- Pabuç gagalı
- Ukrainian
- Китоголов
- Vietnamese
- Cò mỏ giày
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