Re: How are columbiformes (doves and pigeons) related to psittaciformes?

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<This reminds me. Pteroclidae or Pteroclididae? Or perhaps even
Pterocleidae? What's correct? I've seen the first two, and the last looks
logical considering how words are derived from Herakles ( +AD0-
Hercules).>

  Well, correct versus what was in the literature and established? As for
nomenclature, since the stem is _kleo-_ it would be _kleidae_. "Key," as
in _kleidos_, becomes _kleidi-_ (as I'm sure David knows) so it shouldn't
be Pterocleididae. BUT ... that's for the established literature to
resolve which is "correct."

  Cheers,

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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