Certhioidea

Certhoidea
Temporal range: Miocene–Holocene
Marsh wren (Cisthorus palustris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Passeriformes
Infraorder:Passerida
Superfamily:Certhioidea
Families

Certhioidea is a superfamily belonging to the infraorder Passerida containing wrens and their allies. It was proposed in 2004 by Cracraft and colleagues to house a clade of four families that were removed from the superfamily Sylvioidea.[1][2]

Classification

Certhioidea

 

Sittidae (nuthatches)

 
 

†Kischinskinia

 
 

 

Certhiidae (treecreepers)

 
 

 

Troglodytidae (wrens)

 
 

Polioptilidae (gnatcatchers)

 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ 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. Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517234-8.
  2. ↑ "Certhioidea". tolweb.org.


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