Muscicapoidea
Superfamily of birds
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Muscicapoidea is a superfamily belonging to the infraorder Passerides containing the Old World flycatchers, thrushes, starlings and their allies. The superfamily contains around 670 species.
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| Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Parvorder: | Passerida |
| Superfamily: | Muscicapoidea |
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Within the parvorder Muscicapida, Muscicapoidea is sister to a clade containing the superfamily Certhioidea and the family Regulidae.[1]
Classification
In 2019 Carl Oliveros and colleagues published a large molecular phylogenetic study of the passerines that included species from each of the seven families that make up the superfamily Muscicapoidea.[1][2]
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