{{short description|Suborder of birds}} {{Distinguish|Tyranny}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Oligocene|present}} | image = Myiarchus-tuberculifer-002.jpg | image_caption = Dusky-capped flycatcher (''Myiarchus tuberculifer'') | taxon = Tyranni | authority = | subdivision_ranks = Infraorders | subdivision = *Eurylaimides *Tyrannides }}
The '''Tyranni''' ('''suboscines''') are a suborder of passerine birds that includes more than 1,000 species, a large majority of which are South American. It is named after the type genus ''Tyrannus''. These have a different anatomy of the syrinx musculature than the oscines (songbirds of the larger suborder Passeri), hence the common name of ''suboscines''.
The suboscines originated in South America about 50 million years ago<ref name=ClaramuntCracraft2015>{{cite journal |last1=Claramunt |first1=S. |last2=Cracraft |first2=J. |title=A new time tree reveals Earth history's imprint on the evolution of modern birds |journal=Science Advances |date=2015 |volume=1 |issue=11 |article-number=e1501005 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.1501005|pmid=26824065 |pmc=4730849 |bibcode=2015SciA....1E1005C }}</ref> and dispersed into the Old World likely via a trans-Atlantic route during the Oligocene.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Selvatti |first1=A. P. |last2=Galvão |first2=A. |last3=Mayr |first3=G. |last4=Miyaki |first4=C. Y. |last5=Russo |first5=C A. de Moraes |title=Southern hemisphere tectonics in the Cenozoic shaped the pantropical distribution of parrots and passerines |journal=Journal of Biogeography |date=2022 |volume=49 |issue=10 |pages=1753–1766 |doi=10.1111/jbi.14466|bibcode=2022JBiog..49.1753S }}</ref> Their presence in the early Oligocene of Europe is well documented by several fossil specimens.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bochenski |first1=Z. M. |last2=Tomek |first2=T. |last3=Bujoczek |first3=M. |last4=Salwa |first4=G. |title=A new passeriform (Aves: Passeriformes) from the early Oligocene of Poland sheds light on the beginnings of Suboscines |journal=Journal of Ornithology |date=2021 |volume=162 |issue=2 |pages=593–604 |doi=10.1007/s10336-021-01858-0|doi-access=free |bibcode=2021JOrni.162..593B }}</ref>
==Systematics== The suborder Tyranni is divided into two infraorders: the Eurylaimides and the Tyrannides. The New Zealand wrens in the family Acanthisittidae are placed in a separate suborder Acanthisitti.<ref name=oliveros>{{ cite journal | last1=Oliveros | first1=C.H. | display-authors=etal | year=2019 | title=Earth history and the passerine superradiation | journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume=116 | issue=16 | pages=7916–7925 | doi=10.1073/pnas.1813206116 | pmid=30936315 | doi-access=free | pmc=6475423 | bibcode=2019PNAS..116.7916O }}</ref>
The phylogenetic relationships of the 16 families in the Tyranni suborder is shown below. The cladogram is based on a large molecular genetic study by Carl Oliveros and collaborators published in 2019:<ref name=oliveros/> The families and the species numbers are from the taxonomy published by AviList in 2025.<ref name=avilist>{{ cite web | author=AviList Core Team | date=2025 | title=AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025 | doi=10.2173/avilist.v2025 | doi-access=free | url=http://www.avilist.org/checklist/v2025/ | access-date=29 March 2026 }}</ref> {{Clade |style=font-size:90%;line-height:90% |label1='''Tyranni''' |1={{clade |label1=Eurylaimides |1={{Clade |1={{Clade |1=Philepittidae – 4 species (asities) |2=Eurylaimidae – 10 species (eurylaimid broadbills) }} |2={{Clade |1=Calyptomenidae – 6 species (Asian green broadbills) |2={{Clade |1=Sapayoidae – 1 species (sapayoa) |2=Pittidae – 46 species (pittas) }} }} }} |label2=Tyrannides |2={{Clade |label1=Tyrannoidea |1={{Clade |1=Pipridae – 55 species (manakins) |2={{Clade |1=Cotingidae – 66 species (cotingas) |2={{Clade |1=Tityridae – 36 species (tityras, becards) |2=Tyrannidae – 441 species (tyrant flycatchers) }} }} }} |2={{Clade |label1=Conophagoidea |1={{Clade |1=Melanopareiidae – 4 species (crescentchests) |2={{Clade |1=Conopophagidae – 12 species (gnateaters) |2=Thamnophilidae – 239 species (antbirds) }} }} |label2=Furnarioidea |2={{Clade |1=Grallariidae – 70 species (antpittas) |2={{Clade |1=Rhinocryptidae – 65 species (tapaculos) |2={{Clade |1=Formicariidae – 12 species (antthrushes) |2=Furnariidae – 321 species (ovenbirds) }} }} }} }} }} }} }}
The Eurylaimides contain the Old World suboscines – mainly distributed in tropical regions around the Indian Ocean – and a single American species, the sapayoa:<ref name=oliveros/> * Sapayooidea ** Sapayoidae: broad-billed sapayoa * Eurylaimoidea ** Eurylaimidae: typical broadbills ** Calyptomenidae: African and green broadbills * Pittoidea ** Pittidae: pittas ** Philepittidae: asities The Tyrannides contain all the suboscines from the Americas except the broad-billed sapayoa. The families listed here are those recognised by the International Ornithologists' Union.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2023 | title=Family Index | work=IOC World Bird List Version 13.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/classification/family-index/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=5 March 2023 }}</ref> * Tyrannoidea ** Pipridae: manakins ** Cotingidae: cotingas ** Tityridae: tityras, sharpbill, becards (includes ''Oxyruncus'' and ''Onychorhynchus'') ** Tyrannidae: tyrant-flycatchers (includes ''Piprites'', ''Platyrinchus'', ''Tachuris'' and ''Rhynchocyclus'') * Conophagoidea ** Melanopareiidae: crescent chests ** Conopophagidae: gnateaters and gnatpittas ** Thamnophilidae: antbirds * Furnarioidea ** Grallariidae: antpittas ** Rhinocryptidae: tapaculos ** Formicariidae: antthrushes ** Furnariidae: ovenbirds and woodcreepers (includes Dendrocolaptidae)
This group has been separated into three parvorders by Sibley & Ahlquist. However, DNA:DNA hybridization did not reliably resolve the suboscine phylogeny. It was eventually determined that there was a simple dichotomy between the antbirds and allies (tracheophones), and the tyrant-flycatchers and allies.<ref> A conceivable vernacular name would be "bronchophones". This would parallel the German vernacular names, ''Luftröhrenschreier'' (tracheophones) and ''Bronchienschreier'' (bronchophones).</ref> Given that the "parvorder" arrangement originally advanced is obsolete (see e.g. Irestedt ''et al.'' 2002 for tracheophone phylogeny) — more so if the Eurylaimides are elevated to a distinct suborder — it is better to rank the clades as superfamilies or, if the broadbill group is considered a separate suborder, as infraorders. In the former case, the name Furnarioidea would be available for the tracheophones, whereas "Tyrannoidea", the "bronchophone" equivalent, has not yet been formally defined.<ref> And thus should not be used without quotation marks.</ref> In the latter case, the tracheophones would be classified as "Furnariides",<ref> See remark at "Tyrannoidea". This peculiarity is explained by the fact that Sibley & Ahlquist's analyses erroneously suggested an overly complex phylogeny for the tracheophones, and a much simpler one for the tyrant-flycatchers and allies.</ref> while the Tyrannides would be restricted to the tyrant-flycatchers and other "bronchophone" families.
The tracheophones contain the Furnariidae, Thamnophilidae, Formicariidae (probably including most tapaculos), and Conopophagidae. The tyrant-flycatcher clade includes the namesake family, the Tityridae, the Cotingidae, and the Pipridae.
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==Further reading== {{refbegin}} *{{ cite journal | last1=Ohlson | first1=J.I. | last2=Irestedt | first2=M. | last3=Ericson | first3=P.G.P. | last4=Fjeldså | first4=J. | year=2013 | title=Phylogeny and classification of the New World suboscines (Aves, Passeriformes) | journal=Zootaxa | volume=3613 | issue=1 | pages=1–35 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3613.1.1 | pmid=24698900 | bibcode=2013Zoot.36133.1.1O | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261371295 | ref=none}} *Irestedt, Martin; Fjeldså, Jon; Johansson, Ulf S. & Ericson, Per G.P. (2002): Systematic relationships and biogeography of the tracheophone suboscines (Aves: Passeriformes). ''Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution'' '''23'''(3): 499–512. <small>{{doi|10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00034-9}}</small> (HTML abstract) *{{Cite journal | last1=Selvatti | first1=A.P. | last2=Galvão | first2=A. | last3=Pereira | first3=A.G. | last4=Pedreira Gonzaga | first4=L. | last5=Russo | first5=C.A.D.M. | date=2017 | title=An African origin of the Eurylaimides (Passeriformes) and the successful diversification of the ground-foraging pittas (Pittidae) | journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution | volume=34 | issue=2 | pages=483–499 | doi=10.1093/molbev/msw250 | pmid=28069777 | doi-access=free | ref=none }} {{refend}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q768526}}
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