RHINOCRYPTINI ( WETMORE, 1926 )

Maurício, Giovanni Nachtigall, Areta, Juan Ignacio, Bornschein, Marcos Ricardo & Reis, Roberto E., 2012, Morphology-based phylogenetic analysis and classification of the family Rhinocryptidae (Aves: Passeriformes), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166 (2), pp. 377-432 : 414

TRIBE RHINOCRYPTINI ( WETMORE, 1926) , NEW RANK

Type genus: Rhinocrypta G. R. Gray, 1841

Included taxa: subtribes Acropternina , Rhinocryptina , Pteroptochina , and Scytalopodina .

Diagnosis.

Exclusive changes:

Char. 27.1, Lacrimal bone wide dorsally and narrower ventrally, with a further change (27.3) in the clade Eugralla + Myornis + Scytalopus .

Char. 33.1, Ventral surface of the zygomatic process with a conspicuous lamina, with reversal (33.0) in three Scytalopus taxa.

Char. 77.1, Cranial half of the syrinx with a sulcus in its ventrolateral surface.

Non-exclusive changes:

Char. 11.0, Short transpalatine process, with reversal (11.1) in Scelorchilus ; convergent in the outgroup genera Melanopareia , Mackenziaena , Geositta , Phacellodomus , Sittasomus , and Pitangus .

Char. 12.0, Straight or slightly curved jugal bar, with reversal (12.1) in the clade Myornis + Scytalopus ; also found in most outgroup taxa.

Char. 49.1, Dorsal iliac crests medially fused, forming the Crista iliosynsacralis ; convergent in the outgroup genera Cranioleuca and Dendrocolaptes .

Bremer support for this clade: 4.