• Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Sylviida: Sylvioidea
• Distribution: Africa, Eurasia, Wallacea
• Number of extant genera: 28 (31)
• Number of extant species: 161

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Pycnonotidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. 

[Notes: (1) the phylogenetic arrangement is based on Shakya & Sheldon, 2017); (2) three genera (Arizelocichla, Chlorocichla, and Ixos) proved to be non-monophyletic (Fuchs et al., 2018).]

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