Muscicapoidea

Muscicapoidea
	Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Parvorder:	Passerida
Superfamily:	Muscicapoidea
Families
	Elachuridae; Cinclidae; Muscicapidae; Turdidae; Buphagidae; Sturnidae; Mimidae;

Muscicapoidea is a superfamily belonging to the infraorder Passerides containing the Old World flycatchers, thrushes, starlings and their allies. The superfamily contains around 670 species.

Within the parvorder Muscicapida, Muscicapoidea is sister to a clade containing the superfamily Certhioidea and the family 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

^ ^a ^b Oliveros, C.H.; et al. (2019). "Earth history and the passerine superradiation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. 116 (16): 7916–7925. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813206116. PMC 6475423. PMID 30936315.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; 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.

[oliveros-1] Oliveros, C.H.; et al. (2019). "Earth history and the passerine superradiation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. 116 (16): 7916–7925. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813206116. PMC 6475423. PMID 30936315.

[ioc-2] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; 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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