• Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Corvides: Corvoidea
• Distribution: South and Southeast Asia, Philippines, Wallacea, New Guinea and Australia, New Zealand
• Number of extant genera: 4
• Number of extant species: 64

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

References

Aggerbeck M, Fjeldså J, Christidis L, Fabre PH, and Jønsson KA (2014), Resolving deep lineage divergences in core corvoid passerine birds supports a proto-Papuan island origin, Mol. Pylogenet. Evol. 70, 272-285. (abstract)

Irestedt M, Fuchs J, Jønsson KA, Ohlson JI, Pasquet E, and Ericson PGP (2008), The systematic affinity of the enigmatic Lamprolia victoriae (Aves: Passeriformes) – An example of avian dispersal between New Guinea and Fiji over Miocene intermittent land bridges? Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 48, 1218-22. (link) [note: no abstract available]

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. (abstract)

Jønsson KA, Blom MPK, Päckert M, Ericson PGP, and Irestedt M (2018), Relicts of the lost arc: High-throughput sequencing of the Eutrichomyias rowleyi (Aves: Passeriformes) holotype uncovers an ancient biogeographic link between the Philippines and Fiji, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 120, 28-32. (abstract) [note: attributed to separate family Lamproliidae]

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) (suppl. mat.) [note: supplementary material inaccessible via smartphone]

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: considering Lamprolia and Rhipidura]

Nyári AS, Benz BW, Jønsson KA, Fjeldså J, and Moyle RG (2009), Phylogenetic relationships of fantails (Aves: Rhipiduridae), Zool. Scr. 38, 553-561. (abstract) [note: transferred „Rhipidura“ hypoxantha to Stenostiridae] 

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: included Lamprolia and Rhipidura]

Rheindt FE, Prawiradilaga DM, Ashari H, Suparno, Gwee CY, Lee GWX, Wu MY, and Ng NSR (2020), A lost world in Wallacea: description of a montane archipelagic avifauna, Science 367, 167-170. (abstract) [note: providing description of Rhipidura habibei]

Sánchez-González LA, and Moyle RG (2011), Molecular systematics and species limits in the Philippine fantails (Aves: Rhipidura), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 61, 290-299. (abstract)