Aegithinidae (Ioras)

  • Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Corvides: Malaconotoidea
  • Distribution: South and Southeast Asia
  • Number of extant genera: 1
  • Number of extant species: 4

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Aegithinidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. The BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6 recognises the same four species. (link)

References

Aggerbeck M, Fjeldså J, Christidis L, Fabre PH, and Jønsson KA (2014), Resolving deep lineage divergences in core corvoid passerine birds supports a proto-Papuan island origin, Mol. Pylogenet. Evol. 70, 272-285. (abstract)

Jønsson KA, Fabre PH, Kennedy JD, Holt BG, Borregaard MK, Rahbek C, and Fjeldså J (2016), A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passerine birds (Aves: Corvides), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 94, 87-94. (abstract)