Subject: single specie families
Date: Mar 16 17:07:56 1995
From: Amicus Diaboli - cack at u.washington.edu


hi tweeters, i was wondering how many one specie bird (or for that matter
any other kingdom) families there are ?. i know of only one - hoopoe
(upupidae). is this another apparent shortcoming of the classification
scheme or is it part of natural diversity?

Manoj


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Manojkumar Saranathan
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