Callaeidae (New Zealand Wattlebirds)

Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Callaeoidea
Distribution: New Zealand
Number of extant genera: 3
Number of extant species: 5

Traditional genus-level classification of extant and recently extinct (red letters) Callaeidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. The phylogenetic arrangement is based on Lubbe et al. (2022), and matches that of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6. (link)

Calcariidae

Calyptomenidae

Passerine families

Individual orders

References [annotated]

Lubbe P, Rawlence NJ, Kardailsky O, Robertson BC, Day R, Knapp M, and Dussex N (2022), Mitogenomes resolve the phylogeography and divergence times within the endemic New Zealand Callaeidae (Aves: Passerida), Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 196, 1451-63. (free pdf) [note: treated all extant and extinct species]

Shepherd LD, and Lambert DM (2007), The relationships and origins of the New Zealand wattlebirds (Passeriformes, Callaeatidae) from DNA sequence analyses, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 43, 480-492. (abstract) [focal taxa: Callaeas wilsoni, Heterolocha acutirostris, and Philesturnus carunculatus]