Eupetidae (Rail-babbler)

  • Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Picathartoidea
  • Distribution: endemic to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo
  • Number of extant genera: 1
  • Number of extant species: 1

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Eupetidae following the AviList checklist v2025b. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. The taxonomic treatment in a family of its own is based on the phylogeny of Jønsson et al. (2007) and matches that of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6. (link)

Bibliography [annotated]

Jønsson KA, Fjeldså J, Ericson PGP, and Irestedt M (2007), Systematic placement of an enigmatic Southeast Asian taxon Eupetes macrocerus and implications for the biogeography of a main songbird radiation, the Passerida, Biol Lett. 3, 323-326. (pdf) [note: ]