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Passeriformes (perching bird)

Reptilia - Passeriformes

Taxonomy
Passeriformes was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Passeres by Hay (1902); it was reranked as the suborder Passeriformes by Hay (1930); it was reranked as the unranked clade Passeriformes by Mayr (2005).

It was assigned to Carinatae by Gadow (1898); to Carinatae by Hay (1930); to Neognathae by Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1960), Carroll (1988); to Neognathae by Mayr (2005); to Neoaves by Slack et al. (2006); to Passerimorphae by Livezey and Zusi (2007); to Aves by Shoshani et al. (1989), Guthrie (1992), Parmalee (1992), del Hoyo et al. (2014); and to Parapasseres by Mayr (2022).

Subtaxa
Acanthisittidae, Acanthizidae, Acrocephalidae, Alaudidae, Artamidae, Atrichornithidae, Bernieridae, Bombycillidae, Calcariidae, Callaeidae, Calyptophilidae, Campephagidae, Cardinalidae, Certhiidae, Cinclidae, Cinclosomatidae, Climacteridae, Coerebidae, Corvidae, Corvitalusoides, Cracticidae, Dasyornithidae, Dicaeidae, Dulidae, Emberizidae, Eopsaltriidae, Estrildidae, Eurylaimidae, Formicaroidae, Fringillidae, Fringilloidae, Furnariidae, Hirundinidae, Icteridae, Laniidae, Locustellidae, Macrosphenidae, Maluridae, Meliphagidae, Menurae, Mimidae, Mohoidae, Mohouidae, Monarchidae, Motacillidae, Muscicapidae, Nectariniidae, Oriolidae (syn. Turnagridae), Orthonychidae, Oscines, Pachycephalidae, Paradisaeidae, Paridae, Parulidae, Passerellidae, Passeres, Passeridae, Petroicidae, Phaenicophilidae, Phylloscopidae, Pipridae, Ploceidae, Polioptilidae, Prunellidae, Psophodidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Pycnonotidae, Rhinocryptidae, Rhipiduridae, Scotocercidae, Scytalopidae, Sittidae, Spindalidae, Sturnidae, Sylviidae, Thamnophilidae, Thraupidae, Tichodromidae, Tityridae, Troglodytidae, Turdidae, Tyrannidae, Vangidae, Vireonidae, Wieslochia, Winnicavis, Yunnanus, Zosteropidae