Teretistridae (Cuban Warblers)

  • Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Passerida: Emberizoidea
  • Distribution: endemic to the Carribean island of Hispaniola
  • Number of extant genera: 1
  • Number of extant species: 2

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

References

Barker FK, Burns KJ, Klicka J, Lanyon SM, and Lovette IJ (2013), Going to extremes: contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of New World passerine birds, Syst. Biol. 62, 298-320. (abstract)

Barker FK, Burns KJ, Klicka J, Lanyon SM, and Lanyon IJ (2015), New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies, Auk 132, 333-348. (free pdf)

Garrido OH (2000), A new subspecies of Oriente Warbler Teretistris fornsi from Pico Turquino, Cuba, with ecological comments on the genus, Cotinga 14, 88-93. (pdf)

Lovette IJ, and Bermingham E (2002), What is a wood-warbler? Molecular characterization of a monophyletic Parulidae, Auk 119, 695-714. (free pdf)

Selvatti AP, Gonzaga LP, and de Moraes Russo CA (2015), A Paleogene origin for crown passerines and the diversification of the Oscines in the New World, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 88, 1-15. (view pdf)