Elachuridae (Elachura)

Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Muscicapida: Muscicapoidea
Distribution: South and Southeast Asia
Number of extant genera: 1
Number of extant species: 1

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Elachuridae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The taxonomic treatment in a family of its own is based on Alström et al. (2014) and matches that of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6. (link)

Dulidae

Emberizidae

Passerine families

Individual orders

Bibliography [annotated]

Alström P, Hooper DM, Liu Y, Olsson U, Mohan D, Gelang M, Manh HL, Zhao J, Lei F, and Price TD (2014), Discovery of a relict lineage and monotypic family of passerine birds, Biol. Lett. 10, e:20131067. (pdf) [note: confirmed exclusion from timaliid genus Spelaeornis; proposed to place Elachura in a family of its own, Elachuridae]