Onychorhynchidae


Onychorhynchidae is small family of suboscine passerine birds found in forest and woodland in the Neotropics.

Taxonomy and systematics

The family Onychorhynchidae was introduced in 2009 by Jose Tello and collaborators.
The cladogram below shows the phylogenetic relationships of the families in the parvorder Tyrannida. It is based on the study by Carl Oliveros and collaborators published in 2019 and the study by Michael Harvey and collaborators that was published in 2020. The families and species numbers are from the list maintained by the International Ornithologists' Union.

Species

The family contains seven species in three genera.
ImageGenusLiving species
Onychorhynchus Fischer von Waldheim, 1810
Myiobius Gray, GR, 1839
  • Tawny-breasted myiobius
  • Sulphur-rumped myiobius
  • Whiskered myiobius
  • Black-tailed myiobius
  • Terenotriccus Ridgway, 1905
  • Ruddy-tailed flycatcher