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Pachycephalidae

Wikipedia Abstract

The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrikethrushes, and three of the pitohuis , and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. Its members range from small to medium in size, and occupy most of Australasia. Australia and New Guinea are the centre of their diversity, and in the case of the whistlers, the South Pacific islands as far as Tonga and Samoa and parts of Asia as far as India. The exact delimitation of boundaries of the family are uncertain, and one species, the golden whistler, has been the subject of intense taxonomic scrutiny in recent years, with multiple subspecies and species-level revisions. The crested bellbird has been recently separated into the new family Oreoicidae.
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Genus

Colluricincla (11)
Coracornis (2)   (1)
Falcunculus (3)
Melanorectes (1)
Pachycephala (52)
Pseudorectes (2)
Rhagologus (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0