A revised classification of the Icteridae (Aves) based on DNA sequence data
Author
Remsen, J. V.
Author
Powell, Alexis F. L. A.
Author
Schodde, Richard
Author
Barker, F. Keith
Author
Lanyon, Scott M.
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4093.2.9
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Subfamily STURNELLINAE Chenu and des Murs, 1853
Encyclopédie d’Histoire Naturelle
5, 1–312 (p. 194, as Sturnellinés).
Type
genus:
Sturnella
Vieillot, 1816
.
Diagnosis.
Only icterids with laterally barred central rectrices. Greater frequency of free lacrimal bone than in any other genus of
Icteridae (Webster 2003)
.
Component genera:
Sturnella
Vieillot, 1816
.
Leistes
Vigors, 1825
(includes
Pezites
Cabanis, 1851
—see Short 1968).