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H&M4 says poliogene is the correct original spelling; the spelling poliogenys in Dickinson (2003) was an ISS (incorrect subsequent spelling).- Mike Earp
- Post #2,315
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Journal of Avian Biology has a Print ISSN: 0908-8857. So why would a Zoobank registration be needed?- Mike Earp
- Post #2,253
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But you happily move species into different genera in light of such studies. pffff- Mike Earp
- Post #2,181
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Are the groupings of genera effectively tribes? You seem to use alphabetical sequence within genera. But some genera are large and have subgenera which others may treat as genera. Does it not make more sense to group the more closely related species together in such cases?- Mike Earp
- Post #2,179
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etyfish doesn't though- Mike Earp
- Post #2,176
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The first uses the usual Order, Family, Subfamily hierarchy, or am I missing something?- Mike Earp
- Post #2,174
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Do you mean within genera? Surely they are arranged in a systematic order above genus level- Mike Earp
- Post #2,172
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Black-fronted Plover has been used at least occasionally (e.g. by the Queensland Wader Study Group here and also in Shorebirds) but clearly very much less often than Black-fronted Dotterel.- Mike Earp
- Post #2,145
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Keeping the English name unchanged when a species is moved from genus to genus has a value in terms of stability and access to information about that species. Changing both at the same time seems to me to be unnecessarily disruptive and, indeed, unhelpful. It's scientific names not English names...- Mike Earp
- Post #2,142
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1831 or 1832 not 1931 or 1932! OD is here.- Mike Earp
- Post #2,139
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I'd stick to French names- Mike Earp
- Post #1,936
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I just noticed this at the foot of page 180 of the latest issue of Indian Birds: I assume this is him. I don't remember his death being noted before on BirdForum.- Mike Earp
- Post #1,829
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This article (available here) is presumably relevant to use of the original spelling (Icthyophaga).- Mike Earp
- Post #1,664
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It can be downloaded from there (as an Excel .xlsx file).- Mike Earp
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What do the species counts mean?- Mike Earp
- Post #864
- Forum: Bird Taxonomy and Nomenclature