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Taxon: Family Meliphagidae Vigors, 1825 - honeyeaters (bird)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Passeriformes

Current position

Meliphagoidea (Superfamily) Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 181.

Alternative positions

Oscines (Suborder) Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 1009.

Historical positions

oscines ([unranked]) Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 24, 431; 19. [implicit]
Passeriformes (Order) Linnaeus, 1758 Ref: 1995
Meliphagoidea (Superfamily) Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 181.
Oscines (Suborder) Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 21, 403.
Oscines (Suborder) Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 1009.
Oscines (Suborder) Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1974 (1970): 643.

Number of Subtaxa

2024 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 42g;169s;35ss; ‡2g;6s
1989-present Systema Naturae 2000 42g;169s; ‡2g;6s
2003 E.C. Dickinson: 24 44[42]g;174[169]s; ‡[2g];5s
1993 B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley 42[41]g;182[179]s; ‡[1g;3s]
1982 W.J. Bock 2sf;39g;172s
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