Superfamily of birds
Certhioidea is asuperfamily belonging to theinfraorder Passerida containing wrens and their allies. It was proposed in 2004 by Cracraft and colleagues to house aclade of four families that were removed from the superfamilySylvioidea .[ 1] [ 2]
In 2019 Carl Oliveros and colleagues published a largemolecular phylogenetic study of the passerines that included species from each of the six families that make up the superfamily Certhioidea.[ 3] Salpornis Certhiidae .Edward Dickinson andLeslie Christidis in the fourth edition of theHoward and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World Salpornithidae .[ 4]
Relationships among families in the superfamily Certhioidea.[ 3] [ 5]
^ Cracraft, J.; Barker, F.K.; Braun, M.; Harshman, J.; Dyke, G.J.; Feinstein, J.; Stanley, S.; Cibois, A.; Schikler, P; Beresford, P.; García-Moreno, J.; Sorenson, M.P.; Yuri, T.; Mindell, D.P. (2004). "Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes)". In Cracraft, J.; Donoghue, M.J. (eds.).Assembling the Tree of Life . Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-517234-8 ^ "Certhioidea" .tolweb.org .^a b Oliveros, C.H.; et al. (2019)."Earth history and the passerine superradiation" .Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States .116 (16):7916– 7925.Bibcode :2019PNAS..116.7916O .doi :10.1073/pnas.1813206116 PMC 6475423 PMID 30936315 . ^ Dickinson, E.C. ;Christidis, L. , eds. (2014).The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World . Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 55.ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2 ^ Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David;Rasmussen, Pamela C. (eds.)."Nuthatches, Wallcreeper, treecreepers, spotted creepers, mockingbirds, starlings, oxpeckers" .IOC World Bird List . Retrieved5 March 2025 .
