The order comprises one family, confined to New Guinea, Australia, the Moluccas and New Caledonia:

• Aegothelidae

Genus-level classification of extant Aegotheliformes.

References

Dumbacher JP, Pratt TK, and Fleischer RC (2003), Phylogeny of the owlet-nightjars (Aves: Aegothelidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequence, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 29, 540-549. (abstract)