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Taxon: Family Certhiidae Leach, 1820 - treecreepers (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: 1007.
*Sylvioidea* (Superfamily)	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 239.

Historical positions

*Muscicapoidea* (Superfamily)	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 25, 647; 19, 20.
*Passeriformes* (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: 1995
*Sylvioidea* (Superfamily)	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 239.
*Oscines* (Suborder)	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 401. [implicit]
*Oscines* (Suborder)	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 1007.
*Oscines* (Suborder)	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1974 (1970): 642.

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	2g;8s;6ss
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	2g;8s
2003	E.C. Dickinson: 26	2g;8s
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	23g;97s
1982	W.J. Bock	3sf;3g;8s

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