| Muscicapoidea | |
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| Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Parvorder: | Passerida |
| Superfamily: | Muscicapoidea |
| Families | |
Muscicapoidea is asuperfamily belonging to theinfraorderPasserides containing theOld World flycatchers,thrushes,starlings and their allies. The superfamily contains around 670 species.
Within theparvorderMuscicapida, Muscicapoidea issister to aclade containing the superfamilyCerthioidea and the familyRegulidae.[1]
In 2019 Carl Oliveros and colleagues published a largemolecular phylogenetic study of thepasserines that included species from each of the seven families that make up the superfamily Muscicapoidea.[1][2]
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