Bernieridae
Also known as the Malagasy warblers
The tetrakas, also known as the Malagasy warblers, are a recently validated family of songbirds. They were formally named Bernieridae in 2010. The family currently consists of eleven species (in eight genera) of small forest birds. These birds are all endemic to Madagascar.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyBernieridae
Observations recorded20,632
Bernieridae (лат.) — семейство птиц из отряда воробьинообразных. Семейство было официально создано в 2010 году на основе анализа мтДНК цитохромы B и 16S рРНК (Cibois и др., 1999, 2001), а также нДНК RAG-1 и RAG-2 экзона (Бересфорд и др., 2005). Эти птицы являются эндемиками Мадагаскара. Монофилия этой группы была предложена еще в 1934 году (Salomonsen, 1934). Но традиционная классификация этих птиц была сохранена из-за отсутствия целенаправленных исследований. Представители семейства ранее относили к бюльбюлевым, тимелиевым и славковым.
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The tetrakas, also known as the Malagasy warblers, are a recently validated family of songbirds. They were formally named Bernieridae in 2010. The family currently consists of eleven species (in eight genera) of small forest birds. These birds are all endemic to Madagascar.
In 1934, the monophyly of this group was proposed by Finn Salomonsen but the traditional assignments of these birds were maintained, mistaken by their convergent evolution and the lack of dedicated research. The families to which the Malagasy warblers were formerly assigned—Pycnonotidae (bulbuls) and even more so Timaliidae (Old World babblers) and the Old World warbler—were used as "wastebin taxa", uniting unrelated lineages that were somewhat similar ecologically and morphologically.