| Muscicapoid | |
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| Varied Thrush | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Inopinaves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Suborder: | Passeri |
| Infraorder: | Passerida |
| Superfamily: | Muscicapoidea Sibley and Ahlquist, 1990 |
Muscicapoids are a subfamily of oscine passerines containing the thrushes, Old World flycatchers, oxpeckers, starlings and mimids.
Etymology[]
Muscicapoidea is derived from the genus Muscicapa. From Latin, musca fly < Gr. μυια muia, μυιας muias fly; capere to catch;[1] -oidea is derived from New Latin, -oideus, meaning resembling.[2]
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References[]
- ^ Jobling, J. (2015). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.), eds. "Muscicapa". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. Retrieved 6-8-16. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ^ -oidea. (2016, April 25). Wiktionary, The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 16:40, June 8, 2016 from https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=-oidea&oldid=38096538.
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