Dulidae (Palmchat)

Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Muscicapida: Bombycilloidea
Distribution: endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola
Number of extant genera: 1
Number of extant species: 1

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Dulidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The taxonomic treatment in a family of its own matches that of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6. (link)

Donacobiidae

Elachuridae

Passerine families

Individual orders

Bibliography [annotated]

Spellman GM, Cibois A, Moyle RG, Winker K, and Barker FK (2008), Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: What is a bombycillid?, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 49, 1036-40. (journal´s abstract) (authors´pdf) [note: suggested to place Dulus domenicus n the subfamily Dulinae of the family Bombycillidae]