Certhioidea

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

Classification

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]

Certhioidea 
 

Tichodromidae – wallcreeper

 
 
 

Sittidae – nuthatches

 
 
 

Certhiidae – treecreepers

 
 
 

Polioptilidae – gnatcatchers

 
 

Troglodytidae – wrens

 
 
 
 
 

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. (eds.). Assembling the Tree of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517234-8.
  2. "Certhioidea". tolweb.org.
  3. 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813206116.


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