Aegithalidae

Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus, copyright Francis C. Franklin.

Belongs within: Sylvioidea.

The Aegithalidae, long-tailed tits, are a group of small birds found in the Holarctic and Oriental regions with a more or less elongate tail, short rounded wings and a short bill.

<==Aegithalidae
    |  i. s.: Psaltria exilis JT12
    |--Leptopoecile Severtsov 1873 JT12, B94 [Leptopoecilinae]
    |    |--L. elegans JT12
    |    `--L. sophiae JT12
    `--+--Psaltriparus Bonaparte 1850 JT12, B94 [Psaltriparidae]
       |    `--P. minimus JT12
       `--Aegithalos Hermann 1804 JT12, M02 [Aegithalinae]
            |--+--A. concinnus JT12
            |  `--A. leucogenys JT12
            `--+--+--A. iouschistos BKB15
               |  `--+--A. caudatus (Linnaeus 1758) BKB15, M02 [=Parus caudatus M02]
               |     |    |--A. c. caudatus T89
               |     |    `--A. c. japonicus T89
               |     `--A. glaucogularis BKB15
               `--+--A. niveogularis BKB15
                  `--+--A. bonvaloti BKB15
                     `--+--A. fuliginosus BKB15
                        `--A. sharpei BKB15

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[M02] Mlíkovský, J. 2002. Cenozoic Birds of the World. Part 1: Europe. Ninox Press: Praha.

[T89] Takeshita, N. 1989. Nihon no Yachoo. Kogakukan: Tokyo.