Myadestinae

Myadestinae
Temporal range: SerravallianHolocene, 11–0 Ma
Townsend's solitaire (Myadestes townsendi)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Subfamily: Myadestinae
S.F. Baird, 1864
Genera

Myadestinae (the turdid solitaires) are a subfamily of passerine birds in the family Turdidae. Members of this group have been noted by ornithologists to be rather unusual in that they lack the typical diagnostic traits seen in the "true" thrushes of the sister subfamily Turdinae. Examples of including the lack syringeal morphology seen in turdines and the feeding ecology of myadestines being similar to those of Old World flycatchers. A 2005 molecular study from Klicka et al. found support in a basal clade consisting of the genera Sialia, Neocossyphus, Stizorhina, and Myadestes to be sister to the rest of the thrushes. The divergence between myadestines and turdines occurred 11 million years ago in the Serravallian.[1]

Genera

Image Genus Living species
Grandala Hodgson, 1843
Sialia Swainson, 1827
Neocossyphus Fischer, GA, 1884
Stizorhina Oberholser, 1899
Myadestes Swainson, 1838

References

  1. ^ Klicka, J.; Voelker, G.; Spellman, G.M. (2005). "A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the "true thrushes" (Aves: Turdinae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 34 (3): 486–500. Bibcode:2005MolPE..34..486K. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.10.001. PMID 15683924.