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Taxon: Genus Passer Brisson, 1760 (bird)

Entity:

Concise hierarchy

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

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

Neornithes (Clade) Gadow, 1893

Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: 59.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997]

Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Sereno, 2007).

Current position

Passeridae (Family) Rafinesque, 1815

Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 715.

Alternative positions

Passerinae (Subfamily)

Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 288.

Historical positions

*Tetanurae* (Clade) Gauthier 1986	Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 213, fig. 6. [rough position] [implicit]
*Passeridae* (Family) Rafinesque, 1815	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 715.
*Passerinae* (Subfamily)	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 288.
*Passeridae* (Family) Rafinesque, 1815	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 1012.
*Passerinae* (Subfamily)	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1974 (1970): 651.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	18s;13ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[18s]
2003	E.C. Dickinson	[18s]
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	[23s]

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