Cinclidae (Dippers)

Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Muscicapida: Muscicapoidea
Distribution: Eurasia and northern Africa, New World
Number of extant genera: 1
Number of extant species: 5

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Cinclidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. The intrinsic phylogeny has been studied by Voelker (2002), and matches that of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6 (link)

Chloropseidae

Cinclosomatidae

Passerine families

Individual orders

References [annotated]

Voelker G (2002), Molecular phylogenetics and the historical biogeography of dippers (Cinclidae), Ibis 144, 577-584. (abstract) [note: provided a species-level phylogeny and estimated divergence times of all five Cinclus species]