Definition of Suborder Otides

1. Noun. Terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards.

Exact synonyms: Otides
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Gruiformes, Order Gruiformes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Otides

suborder Microchiroptera
suborder Mugiloidea
suborder Myomorpha
suborder Mysticeti
suborder Myxiniformes
suborder Myxinoidei
suborder Natantia
suborder Nematocera
suborder Nothosauria
suborder Odontoceti
suborder Ophidia
suborder Ornithomimida
suborder Ornithopoda
suborder Oscines
suborder Osteostraci
suborder Otides (current term)
suborder Pachycephalosaurus
suborder Percoidea
suborder Petromyzoniformes
suborder Pinnipedia
suborder Plesiosauria
suborder Prosauropoda
suborder Prosimii
suborder Reptantia
suborder Ruminantia
suborder Sauria
suborder Sauropoda
suborder Sauropodomorpha
suborder Sciuromorpha

Literary usage of Suborder Otides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1892)
"Suborder OTIDES. Otis affini», n.sp. (fossil), Bavaria,R. LYDEKKER,Cat.Fossil B. Brit.Mus. p. 168. 0. tarda, in Wiltshire ; AC SMITH, Wilt. Mag. xxv, pp. ..."

2. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1889)
"Suborder OTIDES. The Bustards appear to form a link between Rails and Cranes on one side and Plovers on the other, but are nearest on the «hole to the ..."

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