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Passeriformes 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 178265

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Order  
  Synonym(s): Eurylami
 
    Tyranni
 
    Menurae
 
    Oscines
 
  Common Name(s): Perching Birds [English]
  
    passereaux [French]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2015   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassAves  – Birds, oiseaux  
                         OrderPasseriformes  – Perching Birds, passereaux  
    Direct Children:  
                            FamilyAcanthisittidae  – New Zealand wrens 
                            FamilyAcanthizidae Bonaparte, 1854 – Australasian warblers 
                            FamilyAcrocephalidae Salvin, 1882  
                            FamilyAegithalidae  – Bushtits 
                            FamilyAegithinidae G. R. Gray, 1869  
                            FamilyAlaudidae Vigors, 1825 – Larks 
                            FamilyArcanatoridae   
                            FamilyArtamidae Vigors, 1825 – Woodswallows 
                            FamilyAtrichornithidae  – scrubbirds 
                            FamilyBernieridae Cibois, David, Gergory & Pasquet, 2010  
                            FamilyBombycillidae Swainson, 1831 – Waxwings 
                            FamilyBuphagidae R. P. Lesson, 1828 – oxpeckers 
                            FamilyCalcariidae  – Longspurs, Snow Buntings 
                            FamilyCallaeidae Sundevall, 1836 – New Zealand wattlebirds 
                            FamilyCalyptomenidae  – broadbills 
                            FamilyCalyptophilidae  – chat-tanagers 
                            FamilyCampephagidae Vigors, 1825 – Cuckoo-Shrikes, Cuckooshrikes 
                            FamilyCardinalidae  – Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Saltators, Cardinal-Grosbeaks 
                            FamilyCerthiidae Leach, 1820 – creepers, grimpereaux 
                            FamilyCettiidae  – cettia bush warblers 
                            FamilyChaetopidae   
                            FamilyChloropseidae Wetmore, 1960  
                            FamilyCinclidae Sundevall, 1836 – Dippers 
                            FamilyCinclosomatidae Mathews, 1921 – jewel-babblers, quail-thrushes 
                            FamilyCisticolidae Sundevall, 1872  
                            FamilyClimacteridae  – Australasian treecreepers 
                            FamilyCnemophilidae Mayr, 1962 – satinbirds 
                            FamilyConopophagidae Sclater & Salvin, 1873 – gnateaters 
                            FamilyCorcoracidae Mathews, 1925 – Australian mudnesters 
                            FamilyCorvidae Leach, 1820 – crows, jays, magpies, corneilles, geais, pies 
                            FamilyCotingidae  – Contingas 
                            FamilyCracticidae Chenu & Des Murs, 1853  
                            FamilyDasyornithidae  – bristlebirds 
                            FamilyDicaeidae Bonaparte, 1853  
                            FamilyDicruridae Vigors, 1825 – Drongos 
                            FamilyDonacobiidae Aleixo & Pacheco, 2006  
                            FamilyDulidae P. L. Sclater, 1862  
                            FamilyEmberizidae  – Buntings 
                            FamilyErythrocercidae Fregin, Haase, Olsson & Alström, 2012 – yellow flycatchers 
                            FamilyEstrildidae Bonaparte, 1850 – Waxbills, Munias 
                            FamilyEupetidae   
                            FamilyEurylaimidae  – broadbills 
                            FamilyFormicariidae G. R. Gray, 1840 – antthrushes, ground-antbirds 
                            FamilyFringillidae Leach, 1820 – gros-becs, moineaux, roselins, Old World Finches, Finches, Hawaiian Honeycreepers 
                            FamilyFurnariidae  – ovenbirds, woodcreepers, spinetails 
                            FamilyGrallariidae P. L. Sclater & O. Salvin, 1873 – antpittas 
                            FamilyHirundinidae Rafinesque, 1815 – Swallows 
                            FamilyHyliidae  – hylias 
                            FamilyHyliotidae   
                            FamilyHylocitreidae   
                            FamilyHypocoliidae Delacour & Amadon, 1949  
                            FamilyIcteridae  – New World Orioles, New World Blackbirds 
                            FamilyIcteriidae   
                            FamilyIfritidae Schodde & Christidis, 2014 – Blue-capped Ifrit 
                            FamilyIrenidae Jerdon, 1863  
                            FamilyLaniidae Rafinesque, 1815 – shrikes 
                            FamilyLeiothrichidae Swainson, 1832  
                            FamilyLocustellidae Bonaparte, 1875  
                            FamilyMachaerirhynchidae  – boatbills 
                            FamilyMacrosphenidae Wolters, 1983 – crombecs, African warblers 
                            FamilyMalaconotidae Swainson, 1824 – bushshrikes 
                            FamilyMaluridae  – fairywrens, grasswrens, emu-wrens 
                            FamilyMelampittidae Schodde & Christidis, 2014 – melampittas 
                            FamilyMelanocharitidae Sibley & Ahlquist, 1985 – berrypeckers, longbills 
                            FamilyMelanopareiidae Ericson et al., 2010 – crescentchests 
                            FamilyMeliphagidae  – Honeyeaters 
                            FamilyMenuridae  – lyrebirds 
                            FamilyMimidae Bonaparte, 1853 – mockingbirds, thrashers 
                            FamilyMitrospingidae  – mitrospingid tanagers 
                            FamilyMohoidae R. C. Fleischer H. F. James & S. L. Olson, 2008 – Oos 
                            FamilyMohouidae   
                            FamilyMonarchidae Bonaparte, 1854 – monarch flycatchers, monarchs 
                            FamilyMotacillidae Horsfield, 1821 – Pipits, Wagtails 
                            FamilyMuscicapidae Fleming, 1822 – Old World Flycatchers, Chats 
                            FamilyNectariniidae Vigors, 1825  
                            FamilyNeosittidae Ridgway, 1904  
                            FamilyNesospingidae  – Puerto Rican tanager 
                            FamilyNicatoridae  – Nicators 
                            FamilyNotiomystidae A. Driskell, Christidis, Gill, Boles, Barker & Longmore, 2007 – stitchbird 
                            FamilyOnychorhynchidae   
                            FamilyOreoicidae   
                            FamilyOriolidae Vigors, 1825  
                            FamilyOrthonychidae G. R. Gray, 1840 – logrunners 
                            FamilyOxyruncidae   
                            FamilyPachycephalidae Swainson, 1831  
                            FamilyPanuridae Des Murs, 1860 – Bearded Reedling 
                            FamilyParadisaeidae Vigors, 1825 – birds-of-paradise 
                            FamilyParadoxornithidae  – parrotbills 
                            FamilyParamythiidae P. L. Sclater, 1893 – painted berrypickers 
                            FamilyPardalotidae Strickland, 1842 – pardalotes 
                            FamilyParidae Vigors, 1825 – Chickadees, Titmice, Tits 
                            FamilyParulidae  – New World Warblers, wood-warblers 
                            FamilyPasserellidae  – New World sparrows, American sparrows, towhees 
                            FamilyPasseridae Rafinesque, 1815  
                            FamilyPellorneidae Vigors & Delacour, 1946  
                            FamilyPetroicidae Mathews, 1920  
                            FamilyPeucedramidae Wolters, 1980 – Olive Warbler 
                            FamilyPhaenicophilidae  – Hispaniolan Palm-tanagers 
                            FamilyPhilepittidae  – asities 
                            FamilyPhylloscopidae   
                            FamilyPicathartidae Lowe, 1938  
                            FamilyPipridae  – manakins 
                            FamilyPittidae  – pittas 
                            FamilyPityriaseidae Mayr & Amadon, 1951  
                            FamilyPlatylophidae Gaudin, Sangster and Bruce, 2021 – Crested Jayshrike 
                            FamilyPlatysteiridae Mathews, 1922 – batises, wattle-eyes 
                            FamilyPloceidae Sundevall, 1836 – Bishops, Weavers, Widowbirds 
                            FamilyPnoepygidae  – cupwings 
                            FamilyPolioptilidae S. F. Baird, 1858 – Gnatcatchers, gobe-mouches 
                            FamilyPomatostomidae Schodde, 1975 – Australasian babblers 
                            FamilyPromeropidae Vigors, 1825  
                            FamilyPrunellidae Richmond, 1908 – Accentors 
                            FamilyPsophodidae Bonaparte, 1854 – whipbirds 
                            FamilyPtilogonatidae Baird, 1858 – Silky-Flycatchers 
                            FamilyPtilonorhynchidae  – Bowerbirds 
                            FamilyPycnonotidae G. R. Gray, 1840 – Bulbuls 
                            FamilyRegulidae Vigors, 1825 – Kinglets, Goldcrests, roitelets, Firecrests 
                            FamilyRemizidae Olphe-Galliard, 1891 – Penduline Tits, Verdins 
                            FamilyRhinocryptidae Wetmore, 1930 – tapaculos 
                            FamilyRhipiduridae Sundevall, 1872  
                            FamilyRhodinocichlidae  – Rosy Thrush-Tanager 
                            FamilySalpornithidae G. R. Gray, 1847 – spotted creepers 
                            FamilySapayoidae   
                            FamilyScotocercidae Fregin, Haase, Olsson & Alström, 2012 – streaked scrub warbler 
                            FamilySittidae R. P. Lesson, 1828 – nuthatches 
                            FamilySpindalidae  – spindalises 
                            FamilyStenostiridae   
                            FamilySturnidae Rafinesque, 1815 – étourneaux, starlings 
                            FamilySylviidae Leach, 1820  
                            FamilyTeretistridae  – Cuban Warblers 
                            FamilyThamnophilidae Swainson, 1824  
                            FamilyThraupidae  – Tanagers 
                            FamilyTichodromidae Swainson, 1827 – wallcreeper 
                            FamilyTimaliidae Vigors & Horsfield, 1827  
                            FamilyTityridae  – tityras, becards, sharpbill 
                            FamilyTroglodytidae Swainson, 1832 – Wrens 
                            FamilyTurdidae Rafinesque, 1815 – thrushes 
                            FamilyTyrannidae  – Tyrant Flycatchers, tyrans gobe-mouches 
                            FamilyUrocynchramidae   
                            FamilyVangidae  – vangas 
                            FamilyViduidae   
                            FamilyVireonidae  – Greenlets, Vireos 
                            FamilyZeledoniidae  – Wrenthrush 
                            FamilyZosteropidae Bonaparte, 1853 – White-eyes 
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Alan P. Peterson, M.D.   
  Notes: PO Box 1999 Walla Walla, Washington 99362-0999   
  Reference for: Passeriformes    
       
  Expert: Richard C. Banks   
  Notes: Chief, Bird Section, U.S.G.S. - B.R.D. - P.W.R.C.   
  Reference for: Passeriformes    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: ITIS*ca, website (version 2002)  
  Acquired: 2003   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: passereaux[French]   
       
  Source: ITIS & Species 2000 Catalogue of Life Management Hierarchy, document (version Animalia)  
  Acquired: 2013   
  Notes: M. Ruggiero & D. Gordon, eds. 2013. Consensus Management Hierarchy for the ITIS & Species2000 Catalogue of Life. Contributors: Nicolas Bailly, Thierry Bourgoin, Richard Brusca, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Daphne Fautin, Dennis Gordon, Gerald Guala, Michael Guiry, Paul Kirk, Elliot Lefkowitz, David Mabberly, David Maddison, Alan Paton, Michael Ruggiero, Peter Stevens, and Brian Tyndall   
  Reference for: Passeriformes   
       
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Passeriformes   
       
  Source: Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource, 2015.02.01, website (version 01-Feb-15)  
  Acquired: 2015   
  Notes: 'Zoonomen Nomenclatural data' maintained by Alan P. Peterson at http://www.zoonomen.net   
  Reference for: Passeriformes   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner   
  Publication Date: 1987   
  Article/Chapter Title: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Resource Publication, no. 166   
  Page(s): 79   
  Publisher: United States Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service   
  Publication Place: Washington, D.C., USA   
  ISBN/ISSN:    
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Passeriformes, Perching Birds [English]   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Dickinson, E. C., and L. Christidis, eds.   
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title:    
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, 4th Edition, Vol. 2 Passerines   
  Page(s): lii + 752   
  Publisher: Aves Press   
  Publication Place: Eastbourne, UK   
  ISBN/ISSN: 9780956861122   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Passeriformes, Perching Birds [English]   
       

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