Sylvioidea
| Sylvioidea | |
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Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Infraorder: | Passerida |
| Superfamily: | Sylvioidea |
| Families | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Zosteropoidea | |
Sylvioidea is a
Passeroidea. It contains about 1300 species including the Old World warblers, Old World babblers, swallows, larks and bulbuls
. Members of the clade are found worldwide, but fewer species are present in the Americas.
Systematics
The superfamily Sylvioidea was first proposed in 1990 in the
Alaudidae (larks).[2]
Some of the families within the Sylvioidea have been greatly redefined. In particular, the Old World warbler family Sylviidae and Old World babbler family Timaliidae were used as
wastebin taxa and included many species which have turned out not to be closely related. Several new families have been created and some species have been moved from one family to another.[3]
List of families
This list of 25 families is based on the
molecular phylogenetic study published by Silke Fregin and colleagues in 2012.[4][5] and the revisions of the babbler group by Cai et al (2019)[6]
The family sequence and number of species is from the online list of world birds maintained by International Ornithological Committee (IOC).[7]
- Nicatoridae: nicators (3 species)
- Panuridae: bearded reedling(1 species)
- Alaudidae: larks (98 species)
- Pycnonotidae: bulbuls (160 species)
- Hirundinidae: swallows, martins (88 species)
- Pnoepygidae: cupwings (5 species)
- Macrosphenidae: crombecs, African warblers (18 species)
- Cettiidae: Cettia bush warblers and allies (31 species)
- Scotocercidae: streaked scrub warbler(1 species)
- Erythrocercidae: yellow flycatchers (3 species)
- Hyliidae: hylias (2 species)[8]
- Aegithalidae: bushtits (13 species)
- Phylloscopidae: leaf warblers and allies (80 species)
- Acrocephalidae: reed warblers and allies (42 species)
- Locustellidae: grassbirds and allies (67 species)
- Donacobiidae: black-capped donacobius(1 species)
- Bernieridae: Madagascan warblers (11 species)
- Cisticolidae: cisticolas and allies (163 species)
- Babbler group:[6]
- Sylviidae: sylviid babblers (34 species)
- Paradoxornithidae: parrotbills (37 species)
- Zosteropidae: white-eyes (146 species)
- Timaliidae: babblers, scimitar babblers (57 species)
- Pellorneidae: fulvettas, ground babblers (65 species)
- Alcippeidae: Alcippe fulvettas (10 species)
- Leiothrichidae: laughingthrushes and allies (133 species)
References
Wikispecies has information related to Sylvioidea.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sylvioidea.
- Ahlquist, J.E.(1990). Phylogeny and Classification of Birds. A Study in Molecular Evolution. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- PMID 16054402.
- ^ Boyd, John H. (2010): Sylvioidea, Aves — A Taxonomy in Flux. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
- PMID 22920688.
- .
- ^ PMID 30321696.
- IOC World Bird List. International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- . Retrieved 1 September 2019.