Muscicapida
Sign in to saveMuscicapida is a clade of birds in the order Passeriformes. Oliveros, C.H. et al. (2019) suggested a gondwanan migration of this lineage from Australia to Eurasia.
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Muscicapida is a clade of birds in the order Passeriformes. Oliveros, C.H. et al. (2019) suggested a gondwanan migration of this lineage from Australia to Eurasia.
==Systematics== The parvorder contains the following 19 families: Bombycilloidea Dulidae: palmchat Bombycillidae: waxwings Ptiliogonatidae: silky flycatchers Hylocitreidae: hylocitrea Hypocoliidae: hypocolius † Mohoidae: oos Muscicapoidea Elachuridae: spotted elachura Cinclidae: dippers Muscicapidae: Old World flycatchers and chats Turdidae: thrushes and allies Buphagidae: oxpeckers Sturnidae: starlings and rhabdornis Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers Regulidae: goldcrests and kinglets Certhioidea Tichodromidae: wallcreeper Sittidae: nuthatches Certhiidae: treecreepers Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers Troglodytidae: wrens
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muscicapida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.