Muscicapoidea
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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.
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.
| 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) |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| Muscicapidae – chats, Old World flycatchers (332 species) Turdidae – thrushes (172 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) | |
| Buphagidae – oxpeckers (2 species) | |
| Sturnidae – starlings, rhabdornis (123 species) Mimidae – mockingbirds, thrashers (34 species) | |
| Sturnidae – starlings, rhabdornis (123 species) | |
| Mimidae – mockingbirds, thrashers (34 species) | |