Corvida
Sign in to saveThe "Corvida" were one of two "parvorders" contained within the suborder Passeri, as proposed in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, the other being Passerida. Standard taxonomic practice would place them at the rank of infraorder.
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- Parent taxon
- songbirds
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- Corvus corax (NPS).jpg
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- taxon name
- Corvida
- topic's main category
- Category:Corvida
- Commons category
- Corvoidea
- taxon range
- Brazil
- taxon rank
- infraorder
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The "Corvida" were one of two "parvorders" contained within the suborder Passeri, as proposed in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, the other being Passerida. Standard taxonomic practice would place them at the rank of infraorder.
More recent research suggests that this is not a distinct clade—a group of closest relatives and nothing else—but an evolutionary grade instead. As such, it is abandoned in modern treatments, being replaced by a number of superfamilies that are considered rather basal among the Passeri.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Corvida” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.