Belongs within: Corvides.
Contains: Dicruridae, Rhipidura, Monarchidae, Paradisaeidae, Corvidae, Lanius.
The Corvoidea are a clade of songbirds united by molecular analyses. Representatives include crows, shrikes and birds of paradise. The drongo fantail Chaetorhynchus papuensis and silktails Lamprolia are united with fantails Rhipidura in a family Rhipiduridae. The drongo fantail is a sooty-black, square-tailed bird found in New Guinea that was historically included with the drongos in the Dicruridae. The silktails are two short-tailed black birds with a prominent white rump found in Fiji. The ifrit Ifrita kowaldi is a plump green and yellow bird with an iridescent blue cap found in New Guinea whose relationships have been much contended in the past.
<==CorvoideaOF19
|--+--DicruridaeKF-V21
| `--RhipiduridaeKF-V21
| |--RhipiduraJF11
| `--+--Chaetorhynchus papuensisJF11
| `--Lamprolia Finsch 1874JF11, B94 [Lamproliidae]
| |--L. klinesmithiAP21 [=L. victoriae kleinschmidtiFP64]
| `--L. victoriaeJF11
`--+--MonarchidaeKF-V21
`--+--+--ParadisaeidaeKF-V21
| `--Ifrita [Ifritidae]KF-V21
| `--I. kowaldi (DeVis 1890) [=Todopsis kowaldi; incl. I. coronata Rothschild 1898]N10
`--+--Corcoracidae [Corcoracinae]OF19
| |--Corcorax Lesson 1830JF11, B94
| | `--C. melanoramphosJF11
| `--Struthidea Gould 1837 [Struthideidae, Struthideinae]B94
| `--S. cinerea Gould 1837PB96
`--+--MelampittidaeOF19
| |--Megalampitta giganteaAP21
| `--MelampittaOF19
| |--M. giganteaBKB15
| `--M. lugubrisBKB15
`--+--CorvidaeOF19
`--Laniidae [Laniinae]OF19
|--Urolestes melanoleucusJT12
|--LaniusJF11
`--EurocephalusBKB15
|--E. anguitimensBKB15
`--E. rueppelliJT12
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
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[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.
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[JF11] Jønsson, K. A., P.-H. Fabre, R. E. Ricklefs & J. Fjeldså. 2011. Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108 (6): 2328–2333.
[KF-V21] Kuhl, H., C. Frankl-Vilches, A. Bakker, G. Mayr, G. Nikolaus, S. T. Boerno, S. Klages, B. Timmermann & M. Gahr. 2021. An unbiased molecular approach using 3′-UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life. Molecular Biology and Evolution 38 (1): 108–127.
[N10] Naish, D. 2010. Tetrapod Zoology: Book One. CFZ Press: Bideford (UK).
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