Passerides

Drakensberg rockjumper Chaetops aurantius, copyright Brendan Ryan.

Belongs within: Euoscines.
Contains: Melanocharitidae, Petroicidae, Sylviida, Muscicapida, Passerida.

The Passerides are a diverse clade of passerine birds supported by molecular data, including the majority of songbird lineages found in the Northern Hemisphere.

<==Passerides OF19
    |--Cnemophilus De Vis 1890 B94 [Cnemophilidae OF19]
    |    |--C. macgregorii JT12
    |    `--+--C. loriae JT12
    |       `--Loboparadisaea sericea JT12
    `--+--Melanocharitidae OF19
       `--+--+--Notiomystis Richmond 1908 CC10 [=Pogonornis Gray 1846 non Billberg 1828 CC10; Notiomystidae OF19]
          |  |    `--*N. cincta (du Bus de Gisignies 1839) (see below for synonymy) CC10
          |  `--Callaeidae [Callaeadides, Callaeatidae, Creadionidae, Creationtidae, Heteralochidae] OF19
          |       |--Callaeas Forster 1788 [=Callaeus Gray 1840, Calloeas Daudin 1800, Glaucopis Gmelin 1788] CC10
          |       |    |--*C. cinerea (Gmelin 1788) (see below for synonymy) CC10
          |       |    `--C. wilsoni (Bonaparte 1851) (see below for synonymy) CC10
          |       |--Heteralocha Cabanis 1851 (nom. cons.) [=Neomorpha Gould 1837 (nom. rej.)] CC10
          |       |    `--H. acutirostris (Gould 1837) (see below for synonymy) CC10
          |       `--Philesturnus Geoffroy St-Hilaire 1832 (see below for synonymy) CC10
          |            |--*P. carunculatus (Gmelin 1789) (see below for synonymy) CC10
          |            `--P. rufusater (Lesson 1828) (see below for synonymy) CC10
          `--+--+--Eupetidae [Picathartidae, Picathartii, Picathartinae] OF19
             |  |    |--Eupetes Temminck 1831 OF19, B94
             |  |    |    `--E. macrocerus JF07
             |  |    `--+--Picathartes Lesson 1828 OF19, B94
             |  |       |    |--P. gymnocephalus JF07
             |  |       |    `--P. oreas JT12
             |  |       `--Chaetops OF19
             |  |            |--C. aurantius Layard 1867 [=C. frenatus aurantius] B93
             |  |            `--C. frenatus JF07
             |  `--Petroicidae OF19
             `--Eupasseri [Thryothoridae, Timaliini, Tryothorinae] EIJ03
                  |--Sylviida OF19
                  `--+--Muscicapida OF19
                     `--Passerida OF19

*Callaeas cinerea (Gmelin 1788) [=*Glaucopis cinerea, Ca. cinereus; incl. Cryptorhina callaeas Wagler 1827] CC10

Callaeas wilsoni (Bonaparte 1851) [=Glaucopis wilsoni, C. cinerea wilsoni; incl. C. olivascens Pelzeln 1867, Glaucopis olivascens] CC10

Heteralocha acutirostris (Gould 1837) [=*Neomorpha acutirostris, N. gouldii Gray 1841, *Heteralocha gouldi; incl. N. crassirostris Gould 1837] CC10

*Notiomystis cincta (du Bus de Gisignies 1839) [=Meliphaga cincta, *Pogonornis cincta, Ptilotis cincta; incl. Pt. auritus Lafresnaye 1839, Notiomystis cincta hautara Mathews 1935] CC10

Philesturnus Geoffroy St-Hilaire 1832 [=Oxystomus Swainson 1837 non Fischer v. Waldheim 1803; Philesturnidae] CC10

*Philesturnus carunculatus (Gmelin 1789) [=Sturnus carunculatus, Creadion carunculatus, *Oxystomus carunculatus, Philesturnus carunculata, Xanthornus carunculatus, Creadion novaezealandiae Stephens in Shaw 1826, Cr. pharoides Vieillot 1817; incl. Cr. cinereus Buller 1865] CC10

Philesturnus rufusater (Lesson 1828) [=Icterus rufusater, Creadion carunculatus rufusater, Philesturnus carunculatus rufusater; incl. I. novaezealandiae Lesson & Garrot 1829 non Creadion novaezealandiae Stephens 1826] CC10

*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.

[B93] Brooke, R. K. 1993. Annotated catalogue of the Aves type specimens in the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 102 (10): 327–349.

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[EIJ03] Ericson, P. G. P., M. Irestedt & U. S. Johansson. 2003. Evolution, biogeography, and patterns of diversification in passerine birds. Journal of Avian Biology 34 (1): 3–15.

[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.

[JF07] Jønsson, K. A., J. Fjeldså, P. G. P. Ericson & M. Irestedt. 2007. Systematic placement of an enigmatic southeast Asian taxon Eupetes macrocerus and implications for the biogeography of a main songbird radiation, the Passerida. Biology Letters 3 (3): 323–326.

[OF19] Oliveros, C. H., D. J. Field, D. T. Ksepka, F. K. Barker, A. Aleixo, M. J. Andersen, P. Alström, B. W. Benz, E. L. Braun, M. J. Braun, G. A. Bravo, R. T. Brumfield, R. T. Chesser, S. Claramunt, J. Cracraft, A. M. Cuervo, E. P. Derryberry, T. C. Glenn, M. G. Harvey, P. A. Hosner, L. Joseph, R. T. Kimball, A. L. Mack, C. M. Miskelly, A. T. Peterson, M. B. Robbins, F. H. Sheldon, L. F. Silveira, B. T. Smith, N. D. White, R. G. Moyle & B. C. Faircloth. 2019. Earth history and the passerine superradiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 116 (16): 7916–7925.