Furnariidae
Ovenbirds
John Harshman
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close boxRelationships after Chesser et al. 2007, Fjeldså et al. 2007, Irestedt et al. 2006, Moyle et al. 2009.
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
The traditional family Furnariidae (ovenbirds) is not monophyletic; current research suggests that only three genera, here given their own family Scleruridae, must be removed to make it so. The genus Xenops has been argued to be the sister group of the woodcreepers (Irestedt et al. 2002, 2006), but more recent analyses (Moyle et al. 2009) place it within ovenbirds.Within Furnariidae, several genera are not monophyletic. Upucerthia (earthcreepers) is split into five parts. Cranioleuca and Asthenes too are not monophyletic, but not enough species have been sampled to make relationships clear. Further study may reveal more non-monophyletic genera. The genus name always goes with the type species, and other parts of the polyphyletic genera will need other names eventually. Some of these have already been proposed, e.g. Tarphonomus for two species formerly placed in Upucerthia. Unfortunately, the type species of several polyphyletic genera, Asthenes among them, have not yet been sampled, and so I am forced to guess which fragment of the genus retains its name. I have adopted a convention to deal with species that have new genus names, or that now need them: the old genus name appears in brackets, after the new genus name if there is one, alone if there isn't.
References
Areta, J. I. 2007. Behavior and phylogenetic position of Premnoplex barbtails (Furnariidae). Condor 109(2):399-407.
Chesser, R. T. 2004. Molecular systematics of New World suboscine birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32:11-24.
Chesser, R. T., F. K. Barker, and R. T. Brumfield. 2007. Four-fold polyphyly of the genus formerly known as Upucerthia, with notes on the systematics and evolution of the avian subfamily Furnariinae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44(3):1320-1332.
Fjeldså, J., M. Irestedt, and P. G. P. Ericson. 2005. Molecular data reveal some major adaptational shifts in the early evolution of the most diverse avian family, the Furnariidae. Journal of Ornithology 146:1–13.
Fjeldså, J., M. Irestedt, K. A. Jønsson, J. I. Ohlson, and P. G. P. Ericson. 2007. Phylogeny of the ovenbird genus Upucerthia: a case of independent adaptations for terrestrial life. Zoologica scripta 36(2):133-141.
Fjeldså, J. and N. Krabbe. 1990. Birds of the High Andes. Zoology Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Gonzalez, J. and M. Wink. 2008. Phylogenetic position of the monotypic Des Murs' Wiretail (Sylviorthorhynchus desmursii, Aves: Furnariidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. J. Ornithol. 149:393-398.
Hilty, S. 2003. A guide to the birds of Venezuela. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Irestedt, M., J. Fjeldså, and P. G. P. Ericson. 2006. Evolution of the ovenbird-woodcreeper assemblage (Aves: Furnariidae) — major shifts in nest architecture and adaptive radiation. Journal of Avian Biology 37:261–272.
Irestedt, M., J. Fjeldså, U. S. Johansson, and P. G. P. Ericson. 2002. Systematic relationships and biogeography of the tracheophone suboscines (Aves: Passeriformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23:499–512.
Moyle, R. G., R. T. Chesser, R. T. Brumfield, J. G. Tello, D. J. Marchese, and J. Cracraft. 2009. Phylogeny and phylogenetic classification of the antbirds, ovenbirds, woodcreepers, and allies (Aves: Passeriformes: infraorder Furnariides. Cladistics 25:386-405.
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