• Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Cnemophiloidea
• Distribution: New Guinea
• Number of extant genera: 2
• Number of extant species: 3

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Cnemophilidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. The two-genera arrangement is based on Cracraft & Feinstein (2000), Moyle et al. (2016) and Oliveros et al. (2019). The taxonomy differs from that of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6 which considers traditional Cnemophilus to be non-monophyletic. (link)

References [annotated]

Cracraft J, and Feinstein J (2000), What is not a bird of paradise? Molecular and morphological evidence places Mcgregoria in the Meliphagidae and the Cnemophilinae near the base of the corvoid tree, Proc. R. Soc. B 267, 233-241. (abstract) (note: excluded Cnemophilus macgregorii and Loboparadisea sericea from the Paradisaeidae]

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. (including supplementary information) (free pdf) [note: provided a passerine timetree including Cnemophilus loriae and Loboparadisea sericea]

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. 116, 7915-25. (pdf) [note: provided a timetree of passerines including Cnemophilus loriae and Loboparadisea sericea]