An older scientific family classification for sickle-billed Hawaiian honeycreeper birds, now considered part of Fringillidae.
Scientific Latin from Greek 'drepane' (sickle), with the -idae suffix indicating a taxonomic family.
Taxonomists constantly update how they classify animals as DNA testing reveals true relationships—Drepanidae was split apart when genetic testing showed these birds were more closely related to other finches than previously thought.
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