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BirdLife, 25 Apr 2014: Changes to species listed as Extinct.

Would be insteresting to know why Tribonyx hodgenorum should be preferred instead of Gallinula hodgenorum.

Livezey (1998) [pdf, see Fig.12], based on morphology, recovered the typical moorhens (Tristan, Common, Dusky & Lesser M.) as the sister group of the coots (Fulica spp.); the pair of native-hens from Australia was basal to them. If you accept this result, Tribonyx must be recognised for the native-hens. (The only alternative being to sink Gallinula Brisson, 1760, and placing everything in Fulica Linnaeus, 1758.)

Rallus hodgeni Scarlett, 1955 belongs to the native-hen group according to Olson (1975) [pdf].

There are no publicly accessible genetic data for any of the native-hens.

(However, BOLD indicates that G./T. ventralis has been barcoded, although the sequence is not public. This sequence pops up in some of results generated by the ID engine, though, and seems quite distant from those of typical moorhens. Eg., 11.32% away from a Swedish moorhen sequence; coots were 8.39-9.59% away from the same sequence.)

Who illustrated the cockatoos in volume 4 ?

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andy pertreg said:

Who illustrated the cockatoos in volume 4 ?

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Ian Lewington