Onychorhynchidae
Family of birds
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Onychorhynchidae is small family of suboscine passerine birds found in forest and woodland in the Neotropics.
| Onychorhynchidae | |
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| Atlantic royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus swainsoni) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Parvorder: | Tyrannida |
| Family: | Onychorhynchidae Tello, Moyle, Marchese & Cracraft, 2009 |
| Type genus | |
| Onychorhynchus Fischer von Waldheim, 1810 | |
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Taxonomy and systematics
The family Onychorhynchidae was introduced (as the tribe Onychorhynchini) in 2009 by Jose Tello and collaborators.[1]
The cladogram below shows the phylogenetic relationships of the families in the parvorder Tyrannida. It is based on the study by Carl Oliveros and collaborators published in 2019 and the study by Michael Harvey and collaborators that was published in 2020.[2][3] The families and species numbers are from the list maintained by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC).[4]
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Species
The family contains seven species in three genera.[4]
| Image | Genus | Living species |
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| Onychorhynchus Fischer von Waldheim, 1810 |
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 | Myiobius Gray, GR, 1839 |
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.jpg) | Terenotriccus Ridgway, 1905 |
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