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Cinclosomatidae is a family of passerine birds native to Australia and nearby areas. It has a complicated taxonomic history and different authors vary in which birds they include in the family. It includes at least the quail-thrushes (''Cinclosoma''), 5 species of ground-dwelling birds found in Australia and New Guinea. The jewel-babblers (''Ptilorrhoa''), 4 species found in rainforest in New Guinea, also seem to belong in this family. The whipbirds and wedgebills (''Psophodes'' and ''Androphobus'') are often included in which case the name Psophodidae has priority as the name of the family. The Malaysian rail-babbler (''Eupetes macrocerus'') was formerly sometimes placed in this family which would then be called Eupetidae. ==Taxonomy== The quail-thrushes, jewel-babblers, whipbirds and wedgebills were traditionally included with the logrunners (''Orthonyx'') in the family Orthonychidae.〔Roberson, Don (2004) (Quail-thrushes Cinclosomatidae ), Bird Families of the World. Accessed 4 January 2010.〕 Sometimes the Malaysian rail-babbler and blue-capped ifrit (''Ifrita kowaldi'') were also included in the family.〔Howard, Richard & Alick Moore (1980) ''A complete checklist of the Birds of the World'', 1st ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford.〕 In 1985, Sibley and Ahlquist found that the logrunners were not related to the others and included only the logrunners in the Orthonychidae.〔Christidis, Les & Walter Boles (2008) ''Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds'', CSIRO Publishing.〕 They treated the others as the subfamily Cinclosomatinae within their expanded family Corvidae.〔(Sibley's Sequence: Passeriformes ). Accessed 4 January 2010.〕 A numbers of authors later treated the quail-thrushes and allies as the family Cinclosomatidae, a name first coined by Gregory Mathews in 1921–1922. However, if the whipbirds are included in the family, the older name Psophodidae Bonaparte, 1854 has priority. If the Malaysian rail-babbler is also included, the name Eupetidae Bonaparte, 1850 has priority.〔 The Malaysian rail-babbler has now been shown to be unrelated to the others, probably being an early offshoot of the Passerida.〔Jønsson, K.A., J. Fjeldså, P.G.P. Ericson, and M. Irestedt (2007) (Systematic placement of an enigmatic Southeast Asian taxon ''Eupetes macrocerus'' and implications for the biogeography of a main songbird radiation, the Passerida ), ''Biology Letters'' 3(3):323–326.〕 Another study found the quail-thrushes and jewel-babblers to be related to each other but did not show them to have a close relationship with ''Psophodes'' or ''Ifrita''.〔Norman, Janette A., Per G.P. Ericson, Knud A. Jønsson, Jon Fjeldså & Les Christidis (2009) (A multi-gene phylogeny reveals novel relationships for aberrant genera of Australo-Papuan core Corvoidea and polyphyly of the Pachycephalidae and Psophodidae (Aves: Passeriformes) ), ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'', 52:488–497.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cinclosomatidae」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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