Everything about The Acanthizidae totally explained
The
Acanthizidae are a family of passerine birds which include gerygones, thornbills and scrubwrens.
Description
The Acanthizadae consists of small to medium-small passerine birds which can reach a length between 8 to 19 cm. They have short rounded wings and a rather short tail.
Distribution
The occurrence of the Acanthizidae is the Australasian region (Indonesia, Australia), New Zealand and the south-west Pacific.
Taxonomy
Following the
Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy (1990) they were previously regarded as subfamily Acanthizinae within the
Pardalotidae family. However, current revisions (
Christidis &
Boles, 1994;
Schodde &
Mason 1999) don't support this arrangement. The Dasyornithidae (which include the
bristlebirds) are variously seen either as subfamily Dasyornithinae within the Acanthizidae or Pardalotidae family or as own family (Schodde & Mason 1999). The Acanthizidae family consists of the two subfamilies Sericornithinae and Acanthizinae (Schodde & Mason 1999), 14 genera, 63 species and 196 taxa.
Genera
Subfamily Sericornithinae
Subfamily Acanthizinae
Smicrornis
Gerygone
Acanthiza
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