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the web of life in southern Africa

Family: Ciconiidae (storks)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Tetrapoda (four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Reptilia (reptiles) > Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria > Dinosauria (dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) > Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves (birds) > Order: Ciconiiformes

 Species indigenous to southern Africa

Anastomus lamelligerus (African openbill, Openbilled stork) 

Ciconia abdimii (Abdim's stork) 

Ciconia ciconia (White stork) 

Ciconia episcopus (Woolly-necked stork) 

Ciconia nigra (Black stork) 

Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis (Saddle-billed stork) 

Leptoptilos crumeniferus (Marabou stork) 

Mycteria ibis (Yellow-billed stork)