Surprisingly, the rearrangement within Picocoraciae observed when long gaps were excluded unites WKH³WUDGLWLRQDO´&RUDFLLIRUPHV0RUSKRORJLFDOVXSSRUWIRUWUDGLWLRQDO&RUDFLLIRUPHVLVPL[HGWUDGLWLRQDO Coraciiformes form a clade in the analyses of Livezey and Zusi [89], whereas the analyses of Clarke et al. [90] conflict. However, we found it provocative that the gap trees support a Momotus-Todus clade, a topology that agrees with some morphological analyses [90,91] and conflicts with analyses of nuclHRWLGHGDWD)LJXUH+RZHYHUQRQHRIWKHDQDOVHVRIJDSGDWDKDGERRWVWUDSVXSSRUW0% for the Momotus-Todus clade.