Phacellodomus

Belongs within: Furnariidae.

Phacellodomus, thornbirds, is a genus of plain, unstreaked furnariids, often with a rufous crown, that construct large, multichambered stick nests.

Phacellodomus
    |  i. s.: P. dorsalisJT12
    |         P. ferrugineigulaJT12
    |         P. inornatusJT12
    |         P. sibilatrixJT12
    |--+--P. rufifronsBKB15
    |  `--P. striaticepsBKB15
    `--+--P. erythrophthalmusBKB15
       `--+--P. maculipectusBKB15
          `--+--P. ruberBKB15
             `--P. striaticollisBKB15

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.