RHINOCRYPTINAE ( 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 : 413

SUBFAMILY RHINOCRYPTINAE ( WETMORE, 1926)

Type genus: Rhinocrypta G. R. Gray, 1841 .

Included taxa: tribes Psilorhamphini , Merulaxini , new taxon, and Rhinocryptini .

Diagnosis.

Exclusive changes:

Char. 40.1, Manubrium with very short or vestigial processes, with reversal (40.0) in Scelorchilus and the Rhinocrypta + Teledromas clade.

Char. 47.1, Fossa pneumotricipitalis of the humerus completely closed by an osseous wall, with no opening to the interior of the bone.

Non-exclusive changes:

Char. 3.1, Narrow nasal process of the premaxilla, with reversal (3.0) in Acropternis , Pteroptochos , and Eugralla ; convergent in the outgroup genera Melanopareia , Geositta , and Sittasomus .

Char. 46.1, Scapula with a very prominent acromion, exposed in medial view; convergent in the outgroup genus Conopophaga .

Bremer support for this clade: 4.

TRIBE PSILORHAMPHINI (WOLTERS, 1978) , NEW RANK

Type genus: Psilorhamphus Sclater, 1855

Included genus: Psilorhamphus

Diagnosis.

Non-exclusive changes:

Char. 25.1, Lateral portion of the ectethmoid rostrally oriented; convergent in Scytalopus .

Char. 27.3, Lacrimal vestigial; convergent in the clade Eugralla + Myornis + Scytalopus .

Genus Psilorhamphus Sclater, 1855 (type species: Leptorhynchus guttatus Ménétriés, 1835 )

Included species: Psilorhamphus guttatus ( Ménétriés, 1835) .

Diagnosis.

As for tribe Psilorhamphini .

UNNAMED CLADE: MERULAXINI + RHINOCRYPTINI

Diagnosis.

Exclusive change:

Char. 37.2, Caudal end of the mandible with a well-developed protuberance in the lateral margin, with reversal (37.1) in Pteroptochos tarnii and Scytalopus .

Non-exclusive change:

Char. 1.1, Short premaxillary rostrum; convergent in the outgroup genus Melanopareia .

Bremer support for this clade: 1.