List of Passerida

This list is used to show all the species in the Passerida infraorder.

Superfamily Melanocharitoidea
This superfamily only contains the berrypecker family.

Melanocharitidae: berrypeckers and longbills
4 genera, 10 species
 * Oedistoma
 * Toxorhamphus
 * Rhamphocharis
 * Melanocharis

Superfamily Cnemophiloidea
Like Melanocharitoidea, this superfamily is monotypic. They were once classed as birds-of-paradise.

Cnemophilidae: satinbirds
2 genera, 3 species
 * Loboparadisea
 * Cnemophilus

Notiomystidae: Stitchbird
1 genus, 1 species
 * Notiomystis

Callaeidae: New Zealand wattlebirds
3 genera, 5 species
 * Callaeas
 * Philesturnus
 * Heteralocha

Petroicidae: Australasian robins
14 genera, 49 species

Picathartidae: rockfowls

 * 1 genus, 2 species

Chaetopidae: rockjumpers

 * 1 genus, 2 species

Eupetidae: Rail-babbler

 * 1 genus, 1 species

Superfamily Paroidea

 * Stenostiridae: fairy flycatchers
 * Hyliotidae: hyliotas
 * Remizidae: penduline-tits
 * Paridae: parids

Superfamily Sylvioidea
Mostly insectivores, distribution centered on the Indo-Pacific region. Few occur in the Americas. Nicator-reedling-lark group
 * Nicatoridae: nicators
 * Panuridae: Bearded Reedling
 * Alaudidae: larks

Macrosphenidae group
 * Macrosphenidae: African warblers

Acrocephalus group
 * Pnoepygidae: wren-babblers. Formerly in Timaliidae.
 * Acrocephalidae: marsh- and tree-warblers. Recently split from Sylviidae.
 * Donacobiidae: donacobiuses. Formerly in Troglodytidae.
 * Bernieridae: Malagasy warblers. Members were formerly in Pycnonotidae, Timaliidae and Sylviidae.
 * Locustellidae: grass-warblers and allies. Recently split from Sylviidae.
 * Cisticolidae: cisticolas and allies. Recently split from Sylviidae.

Swallow-bulbul group
 * Hirundinidae: swallows and martins
 * Pycnonotidae: bulbuls

Hylia-aegithelid-cettiid/leaf-warbler group
 * Hyliidae: hylias
 * Aegithalidae: long-tailed tits
 * Cettiidae: ground-warblers and allies. Recently split from Sylviidae.
 * Phylloscopidae: leaf-warblers and allies. Recently split from Sylviidae.

Babbler clade
 * Sylviidae: sylviid warblers
 * Paradoxornithidae: parrotbills
 * Zosteropidae: white-eyes
 * Timaliidae: babblers
 * Pellorneidae: ground-babblers. Formerly in Timaliidae.
 * Leiothrichidae: laughingthrushes. Formerly in Timaliidae.

Superfamily Reguloidea
This superfamily only contains the kinglets.
 * Regulidae: kinglets

Superfamily Bombycilloidea

 * Elachuridae: Spotted Elachura
 * Mohoidae: Hawaiian honeyeaters
 * Ptilogonatidae: silky-flycatchers
 * Dulidae: Palmchat
 * Hypocoliidae: Grey Hypocolius and Hylocitrea
 * Bombycillidae: waxwings

Superfamily Certhioidea

 * Tichodromadidae: Wallcreeper
 * Sittidae: nuthatches and Spotted-creeper
 * Certhiidae: treecreepers
 * Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers
 * Troglodytidae: wrens

Superfamily Muscicapoidea
Mostly insectivores, near-global distribution centered on Old World tropics. One family is endemic to the Americas.

Oxpecker-mockingbird-starling clade
 * Buphagidae: oxpeckers. Formerly in Sturnidae.
 * Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers
 * Sturnidae: starlings and mynas

Dipper-thrush-Old World flycatcher clade
 * Cinclidae: dippers
 * Turdidae: thrushes and allies
 * Muscicapidae: Old World flycatchers and chats

Superfamily Passeroidea
Mostly herbivores, near-global distribution centered on Palearctic and Americas. Includes the Nine-primaried oscines (probably a subclade).

Basal Passeroidea
 * Promeropidae: sugarbirds
 * Arcanatoridae: Dapple-throat and allies
 * Dicaeidae: flowerpeckers
 * Nectariniidae: sunbirds
 * Irenidae: fairy-bluebirds
 * Chloropseidae: leafbirds

Core Passeroidea
 * Urocynchramidae: Przevalski's Finch. Recently split from Fringillidae.
 * Peucedramidae: Olive Warbler
 * Prunellidae: accentors

Estrildid clade
 * Ploceidae: weavers
 * Viduidae: indigobirds and whydahs
 * Estrildidae: estrildid finches (waxbills, munias, etc.)

Passerid clade
 * Passeridae: true sparrows

Nine-primaried oscines

 * Motacillidae: wagtails and pipits

Sibley and Monroe's (1990) Fringillidae
 * Fringillidae: true finches

Epifamily Icteroidae
 * Calcariidae: snow buntings and longspurs. Formerly in Emberizidae.
 * Rhodinocichlidae: Rosy Thrush-Tanager. Formerly in Thraupidae.
 * Emberizidae: buntings
 * Passerellidae: American sparrows
 * Phaenicophilidae: palm-tangers and allies
 * Incertae sedis: Teretistris and Zeledonia''
 * Icteridae: icterids
 * Parulidae: New World warblers
 * Mitrospingidae: mitrospingid tanagers
 * Cardinalidae: cardinals
 * Thraupidae: tanagers and allies