Muscicapida
Clade of birds
Muscicapida is a clade of birds in the order Passeriformes. Oliveros, C.H. et al. (2019) suggested a gondwanan migration of this lineage from Australia to Eurasia.
01Systematics
The parvorder contains the following 19 families:
- Bombycilloidea
- Dulidae: palmchat
- Bombycillidae: waxwings
- Ptiliogonatidae: silky flycatchers
- Hylocitreidae: hylocitrea
- Hypocoliidae: hypocolius
- † Mohoidae: oos
- Muscicapoidea
- Elachuridae: spotted elachura
- Cinclidae: dippers
- Muscicapidae: Old World flycatchers and chats
- Turdidae: thrushes and allies
- Buphagidae: oxpeckers
- Sturnidae: starlings and rhabdornis
- Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers
- Regulidae: goldcrests and kinglets
- Certhioidea
- Tichodromidae: wallcreeper
- Sittidae: nuthatches
- Certhiidae: treecreepers
- Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers
- Troglodytidae: wrens
The cladogram of Muscicapida shown below is based on the analysis of Carl Oliveros and colleagues published in 2019:
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