Onychorhynchidae is small family of suboscine passerine birds found in forest and woodland in the Neotropics.
Taxonomy and systematics The family Onychorhynchidae was introduced (as the tribe Onychorhynchini) in 2009 by José G. 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. A high resolution version of the phylogenetic tree in Figure 1 is available from the first author's website here. The families and species numbers are from the list maintained by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC).
Species The family contains seven species in three genera. Image Genus Living speciesOnychorhynchus Atlantic royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus swainsoni) Tropical royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus)Myiobius Tawny-breasted myiobius (Myiobius villosus) Sulphur-rumped myiobius (Myiobius sulphureipygius) Whiskered myiobius (Myiobius barbatus) Black-tailed myiobius (Myiobius atricaudus)Terenotriccus Ruddy-tailed flycatcher (Terenotriccus erythrurus)
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