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Taxon: Family Muscicapidae Fleming, 1822 - chats and Old World flycatchers (bird)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Passeriformes

Current position

Muscicapoidea (Superfamily)

Ref: J. Cracraft et al., 2003: 19.

Alternative positions

Oscines (Suborder)

Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 1002.

Historical positions

*Muscicapoidea* (Superfamily)	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 25, 674; 19.
*Passeriformes* (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: 1995
*Muscicapoidea* (Superfamily)	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 218.
*Oscines* (Suborder)	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 21, 399.
*Oscines* (Suborder)	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 1002-1003.
*Oscines* (Suborder)	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1974 (1970): 630.

Number of Subtaxa

2026	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	48g;277s;69ss;1v
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[48g;276s]
2003	E.C. Dickinson: 26	48g;275s
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	69g;452[449]s; ‡[3s]
1982	W.J. Bock	4sf;57g;310s

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