• Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Corvides
• Distribution: Africa, Eurasia, Wallacea, Australia, New Guinea
• Number of extant genera: 11
• Number of extant species: 107

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

References [annotated]

Fuchs J, Cruaud C, Couloux A, and Pasquet E (2007), Complex bio-geographic history of the cuckoo-shrikes and allies (Passeriformes: Campephagidae) revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear sequence data, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 44, 138-153. (abstract) [note: provided timetree for 27 species; found Coracina to consist of at least five unrelated lineages, and Lalarge to be paraphyletic]

Jønsson KA, Irestedt M, Fuchs J, Ericson PGP, Christidis L, Bowie RCK, Norman JA, Pasquet E, and Fjeldså J (2008), Explosive avian radiations and multi-directional dispersal across Wallacea: Evidence from the Campephagidae and other crown Corvida (Aves), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 47, 221-236. (abstract) [note: provided a timetree of 35 species; found Coracina to be non-monophyletic]

Jønsson KA, Bowie RCK, Nylander JAA, Christidis L, Norman JA, and Fjeldså J (2010a), Biogeographical history of cuckoo-shrikes (Aves: Passeriformes): transoceanic colonization of Africa from Australo-Papua, J. Biogeogr. 37, 1767-81. (abstract) [note: provided a timetree of most species, but included only two Pericrocotus species; found Coracina to be non-monophyletic]

Jønsson KA, Irestedt M, Ericson PGP, and Fjeldså J (2010b), A molecular phylogeny of minivets (Passeriformes: Campephagidae: Pericrocotus): implications for biogeography and convergent plumage evolution, Zool. Scr. 39, 1-8. (abstract) [note: provided a phylogeny of all 12 recognised species]

Jønsson KA, Fabre PH, Ricklefs RE, and Fjeldså J (2011), Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 2328-33. (pdf) [note: timetree of eight species; found Coracina to be non-monophyletic]

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. (supplementary material) (abstract) [note: phylogeny hidden in suppl. mat.]

Le Pepke M, Irestedt M, Fjeldså J, Rahbek C, and Jønsson KA (2019), Reconciling supertramps, great speciators and relict species with the taxon cycle stages of a large island radiation (Aves: Campephagidae), J. Biogeogr. 46, 1214-25. (pdf) [note: provided a timetree for all genera and many species; did not, however, recover Lalage and Malindangia as sister genera]

McCullough JM, Oliveros CH, Benz BW, Zenil-Ferguson R, Cracraft J, Moyle RG, and Andersen MJ (2022), Wallacean and Melanesian islands promote higher rates of diversification within the global passerine radiation Corvides, Syst. Biol. 71, 1423-39, [and suppl. figure S6]. (free pdf) [note: included all genera and most species; the tree is hidden in the supplementary material]

Moyle RG, Oliveros CH, Andersen MJ, Hosner PA, Benz BW, Manthey JD, Travers SL, Brown RM, and Faircloth BC (2016), Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global songbird radiation, Nat. Commun. 7, e:12709. (free pdf) [note: studied Coracina and Pericrocotus]

Oliveros CH, Field DJ, Ksepka DT, Barker KF, Aleixo A, Andersen MJ, Alström P, Benz BW, Braun EL, Braun MJ, Bravo GA, Brumfield RT, Chesser RT, Claramunt S, Cracraft J, Cuervo AM, Derryberry EP, Glenn TC, Harvey MG, Hosner PA, Joseph L, Kimball RT, Mack AL, Miskelly CM, Peterson AT, Robbins MB, Sheldon FH, Silveira LF, Smith BT, White ND, Moyle RG, and Faircloth BC (2019), Earth history and the passerine superradiation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 7915-25. (pdf) [note: studied Edolisoma tenuirostre and Pericrocotus divaricatus] 

Pedersen MP, Irestedt M, Joseph L, Rahbek C, and Jønsson KA (2018), Phylogeography of a 'great speciator' (Aves: Edolisoma tenuirostre) reveals complex dispersal and diversification dynamics across the Indo-Pacific, J. Biogeogr. 45, 826-837. (abstract) (pdf) [note: provided a timetree and taxonomic recommendations for all Edolisoma species; reassigned E. parvulum to Coracina]