Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Muscicapida: Muscicapoidea

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

Number of extant genera: ~18

Number of extant species: ~173

References

Alström P, Rasmussen PC, Zhao C, Xu J, Dalvi S, Cai T, Guan Y, Zhang R, Kalyakin MV, Lei F, and Olsson U (2016), Integrative taxonomy of the Plain-backed Thrush (Zoothera mollissima) complex (Aves, Turdidae) reveals cryptic species, including a new species, Avian Res. 7, e:1. (free pdf)

Batista R, Olsson U, Andermann T, Aleixo A, Ribas CC, and Antonelli A (2020), Phylogenomics and biogeography of the world’s thrushes (Aves, Turdus): new evidence for a more parsimonious evolutionary history, Proc. R. Soc. B 287, e:20192400. (pdf)

Beresford P (2003), Molecular systematics of Alethe, Sheppardia and some other African robins (Muscicapoidea), Ostrich 74, 58-73. (abstract)

Cerqueira PV, Santos MPD, and Aleixo A (2016), Phylogeography, inter-specific limits and diversification of Turdus ignobilis (Aves: Turdidae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 97, 177-186. (abstract)

Cibois A, and Cracraft J (2004), Assessing the passerine "Tapestry": phylogenetic relationships of the Muscicapoidea inferred from nuclear DNA sequences, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 32, 264-273. (abstract)

Halley MR, Catanach TA, Klicka J, and Weckstein JD (2023), Integrative taxonomy reveals hidden diversity in the Catharus fuscater (Passeriformes: Turdidae) complex in Central and South America, Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 199, 228-262. (abstract)

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. (pdf)

Moyle RG, Oliveros CH, Andersen MJ, Hosner PA, Benz BW, Manthey JD, Travers SL, Brown RM, and Faircloth BC (2016), Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global songbird radiation, Nat. Commun. 7, e:12709. (free pdf)

Nagy J, Végvári Z, and Varga Z (2019), Phylogeny, migration and life history: filling the gaps in the origin and biogeography of the Turdus thrushes, J. Ornithol. 160, 529-543. (free pdf)

Nylander JAA, Olsson U, Alström P, and Sanmartín I (2008), Accounting for phylogenetic uncertainty in biogeography: a Bayesian approach to dispersal-vicariance analysis of the thrushes (Aves: Turdus), Syst. Biol. 57, 257-268. (free pdf)

Oliveros CH, Field DJ, Ksepka DT, Barker KF, Aleixo A, Andersen MJ, Alström P, Benz BW, Braun EL, Braun MJ, Bravo GA, Brumfield RT, Chesser RT, Claramunt S, Cracraft J, Cuervo AM, Derryberry EP, Glenn TC, Harvey MG, Hosner PA, Joseph L, Kimball RT, Mack AL, Miskelly CM, Peterson AT, Robbins MB, Sheldon FH, Silveira LF, Smith BT, White ND, Moyle RG, and Faircloth BC (2019), Earth history and the passerine superradiation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 116, 7915-25. (pdf)

Olsson U, and Alström P (2013), Molecular evidence suggests that the enigmatic Sulawesi endemic Geomalia heinrichi belongs in the genus Zoothera (Turdidae, Aves), Avian Res. 4, 155-160. (free pdf)

Reeve AH, Blom MPK, Marki PZ, Batista R, Olsson U, Edmark VN, Irestedt M, and Jønsson KA (2022), The Sulawesi Thrush (Cataponera turdoides) belongs to the genus Turdus, Zool. Scr. 51, 32-40. (free reading)

Sheldon FH, Lohman DJ, Lim HC, Zou F, Goodman SM, Prawiradilaga DM, Winker K, Braile TM, and Moyle RG (2009), Phylogeography of the magpie-robin species complex (Aves: Turdidae: Copsychus) reveals a Philippine species, an interesting isolating barrier and unusual dispersal patterns in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, J. Biogeogr. 36, 1070-83. (abstract)

Stiller J, Feng S, Chowdhury AA, Rivas-González I, Duchêne DA, Fang Q, Deng Y, Kozlov A, Stamatakis A, Claramunt S, Nguyen JMT, Ho SYW, Faircloth BC, Haag J, Houde P, Cracraft J, Balaban M, Mai U, Chen G, Gao R, Zhou C, Xie Y, Huang Z, Cao Z, Yan Z, Ogilvie HA, Nakhleh L, Lindow B, Morel B, Fjeldså J, Hosner PA, da Fonseca RR, Petersen B, Tobias JA, Székely T, Kennedy JD, Reeve AH, Liker A, Stervander M, Antunes A, Tietze DT, Bertelsen M, Lei F, Rahbek C, Graves GR, Schierup MH, Warnow T, Braun EL, Gilbert MTP, Jarvis ED, Mirarab S, and Zhang G (2024), Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes, Nature (view pdf)

Voelker G, and Spellman GM (2004), Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA evidence of polyphyly in the avian superfamily Muscicapoidea, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 30, 386-394. (abstract)

Zuccon D, Cibois A, Pasquet E, and Ericson PGP (2006), Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data reveal the major lineages of starlings, mynas and related taxa, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 41, 333-344. (abstract)