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]
| Certhoidea Temporal range:
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| Marsh wren (Cisthorus palustris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Parvorder: | Muscicapida |
| Superfamily: | Certhioidea |
| Families | |
Classification edit
In 2019 Carl Oliveros and colleagues published a large molecular phylogenetic study of the passerines that included species from each of the five families that make up the superfamily Certhioidea.[3] The spotted creepers (genus Salpornis) are here included in the family Certhiidae. Edward Dickinson and Leslie Christidis in the fourth edition of the Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World placed them in their own family Salpornithidae.[4]
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| Relationships among families in the superfamily Certhioidea.[3] |
References edit
- ^ 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.
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