Muscicapoidea

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Muscicapoidea
Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Infraorder: Passerida
Superfamily: Muscicapoidea
Families
  • Elachuridae
  • Cinclidae
  • Muscicapidae
  • Turdidae
  • Buphagidae
  • Sturnidae
  • Mimidae

Muscicapoidea is a

Passerides containing the Old World flycatchers, thrushes, starlings
and their allies. The superfamily contains around 670 species.

Within the

Regulidae.[1]

Classification

In 2019 Carl Oliveros and colleagues published a large

molecular phylogenetic study of the passerines that included species from each of the seven families that make up the superfamily Muscicapoidea.[1][2]

Muscicapoidea

Elachuridae
– spotted elachura

Cinclidae
– dippers (5 species)

Muscicapidae
– chats, Old World flycatchers (332 species)

Turdidae
– thrushes (172 species)

Buphagidae
– oxpeckers (2 species)

Sturnidae
– starlings, rhabdornis (123 species)

Mimidae
– mockingbirds, thrashers (34 species)

References

  1. ^
    PMID 30936315
    .
  2. Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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