Malagasy Warblers
Bernieridae
The tetrakas, also known as the Malagasy warblers, are a recently validated family of songbirds. They were formally named Bernieridae in 2010. The family currently consists of eleven species (in eight genera) of small forest birds. These birds are all endemic to Madagascar.
In 1934, the monophyly of this group was proposed by Finn Salomonsen but the traditional assignments of these birds were maintained, mistaken by their convergent evolution and the lack of dedicated research. The families to which the Malagasy warblers were formerly assigned—Pycnonotidae and even more so Timaliidae and Sylviidae—were used as "wastebin taxa", uniting unrelated lineages that were somewhat similar ecologically and morphologically.
8 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 11 known species
Long-billed Bernierias
genusBernieria
Typical Tetrakas
genusXanthomixis
Thamnornis
genusThamnornis
Randia
genusRandia
Oxylabes
genusOxylabes
Hartertula
genusHartertula
Cryptosylvicola
genusCryptosylvicola
Crossleyia
genusCrossleyia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 144309.