Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Passerida: Dicaeoidea

Distribution: Africa, Eurasia, Wallacea, Philippines, New Guinea and Australia

Number of extant genera: ~16

Number of extant species: ~143

following John H. Boyd's TIF website (link).

References

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Campillo LC, Oliveros CH, Sheldon FH, and Moyle RG (2018), Genomic data resolve gene tree discordance in spiderhunters (Nectariniidae: Arachnothera), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 120, 151-157. (abstract) 

Gregory SMS, and Dickinson EC (2012), An assessment of three little-noticed papers on avian nomenclature by G.N. Kashin during 1978-1982, Zootaxa 3340, 44-58. (abstract)

Hosner PA, Nyári ÁS, and Moyle RG (2013), Water barriers and intra-island isolation contribute to the diversification in the insular Aethopyga sunbirds (Aves: Nectariniidae), J. Biogeogr. 40, 1094-1106. (abstract)

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Kuhl H, Frankl-Vilches C, Bakker A, Mayr G, Nikolaus G, Boerno ST, Klages S, Timmermann B, and Gahr M (2021), An unbiased molecular approach using 3'UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life, Mol. Biol. Evol. 38, 108-127. (free pdf) 

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Marcaigh FÓ, Kelly DJ, O’Connell, DP, Analuddin K, Karya A, McCloughan J, Tolan E, Lawless N, and Marples NM (2023), Small islands and large biogeographic barriers have driven contrasting speciation patterns in Indo-Pacific sunbirds (aves: Nectariniidae), Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 198, 72-92. (free pdf)

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Nyári ÁS, Peterson AT, Rice NH, and Moyle RG (2009), Phylogenetic relationships of flowerpeckers (Aves: Dicaeidae): Novel insights into the evolution of a tropical passerine clade, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 53, 613-619. (abstract)

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