Jim LeNomenclatoriste
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Is Pseudociccaba Kelso, 1932 (type = albogularis) a valid alternative for this group?
As subgenus of Megascops ?
Is Pseudociccaba Kelso, 1932 (type = albogularis) a valid alternative for this group?
But, if so, suinda should be called cayennensis (as it indeed was by Kaup). Shaw's plate is but a redraw of Martinet's plate, associated to Buffon's work (link in my earlier post above). I might perhaps construe the plate as showing a Short-eared Owl; I have a much harder time with Buffon's description: the whole bird was said to be rufous, and marked, both above and below, with very thin transversal wavy barring. Short-eared Owl is streaked longitudinally below, and has no thin wavy transversal barring anywhere in the plumage.Strix cayanensis is the juvenile of Asio flammeus suinda Vieillot. Or so said Gray (Handlist of genera and subgenera) "Strix cayanensis, juv." and Kaup (Monograph of the Strigidae Contributions to Ornithology 1851 page 120) And so says my eyes when I look at the picture in Shaw's Vivarium naturæ or the naturalist's miscellany.
https://books.google.com/books?id=4...EIITAB#v=onepage&q="Strix cayanensis"&f=false .
OK, this is the source of the name having been used for albogularis alone, then. But this is not correct. Peters (and probably other authors of his time) accepted quite a few similar fixations "by tautonymy", due to the mere existence of a tautonymous name synonymous with one of the included species. None of these is acceptable under the present rules. To have a type fixation by tautonymy, the tautonymous species name MUST be CITED and included in the genus in the OD. (Which names are subjective synonyms of one another is taxonomy, not nomenclature: different authors might disagree on this. The type species of a generic name must in principle be determinable objectively, in a way fully independent from subjective opinions. Thus subjective synonymy cannot be used in determining the type species, unless the synonymy statement is made explicitly by the author.) This is definitely not the case here, hence Syrnium macabrum Bp is absolutely not eligible to be the type of the Macabra.The type of Macabra is Syrnium macabrum Bonaparte 1850 Consp.
I Don't Give a Hoot, page 123.
https://books.google.com/books?id=9...ved=0ahUKEwjmx9ytzubLAhVJ6GMKHZkjBB4Q6AEIQTAH .
Peters said ; Kelso later found that the type of Macabra Bonaparte is Syrnium macabrum Bonaparte
( = Syrnium albogulare Cassin) by tautonymy and proposed Tacitathena as a new subgenus
with Strix hylophila Termninck as type.
https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v055n02/p0179-p0186.pdf .
Zootaxa 4040 (3): 301–316 (11 Nov. 2015)
Reprising the taxonomy of Cyprus Scops Owl Otus (scops) cyprius, a neglected island endemic
PETER FLINT, DAVID WHALEY, GUY M. KIRWAN, MELIS CHARALAMBIDES, MANUEL SCHWEIZER & MICHAEL WINK
Abstract
Birdwatch, 26 Apr 2016: Cyprus Scops Owl a potential split.Flint et al 2015. [pdf]
MtDNA data place this species in what seems to be the same position, together with Micrathene whitneyi. Unfortunately, no genetic data have been published yet for Xenoglaux, and Micrathene was not in Jessie Salters data set, hence it is impossible to be sure of anything about the relationships within the group."Glaucidium" brodiei in genus Xenoglaux , so?
MtDNA data place this species in what seems to be the same position, together with Micrathene whitneyi. Unfortunately, no genetic data have been published yet for Xenoglaux, and Micrathene was not in Jessie Salters data set, hence it is impossible to be sure of anything about the relationships within the group.
But, anyway, "Xenoglaux brodiei" is not an option. The generic names that would be anchored in this group, assuming it is limited to these three spp, are:
Taenioptynx Kaup 1848 [OD]; type species by original monotypy: Noctua brodiei Burton 1836 [OD].
Micrathene Coues 1866 [OD]; type species by original designation: Athene whitneyi Cooper 1861 [OD].
Xenoglaux O'Neill & Graves 1977 [OD]; type species by original designation: Xenoglaux loweryi O'Neill & Graves 1977 [OD].
Year of publication, i.e., 2009 for this one :t:To read this it is asking for a password.
Cyprus Scops Owl Otus cyprius ADD AS Eurasian Scops Owl O. scops Flint et al. 2015
For some reason, it hasn't been published on the diary page, but Cyprus Scops Owl is now listed on the species updates page on IOC
http://www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/species-updates/
Nutcracker seems to have some problems with the way LeNomenclatoriste spells some english birdnames. This is of course because it is his native language, not the one of LeNomenclatoriste . You expect everyone on this forum to speak and write perfect English. Well, let me tell you, many members of birdforum do not have English as their first language, so mistakes are expected. If the forum was in French or German or Dutch, you would have a lot of problems. In this case your remarks are on hyphens in bird names. English names are not official names and nobody should care about a hyphen or not. Birds have an official Latin name, and that is the only name that matters, so again I suggest that we use the Latin names, not the name in some regional language.
Fred Ruhe
Flint et al had 39 cyprius and 108 individuals of other ssp for vocal analysis. For molecular analysis they had three cyprius and seven of other ssp, for biometrics they had 51 cyprius and 24 other ssp. For plumage analysis, the sample size is not given.Anybody knows what sample size was in these call and single nucleotide differences, which were basis of the assertion that Eurasian Scops doesn't invade Cyprus? N > 1?
For molecular analysis they had three cyprius and seven of other ssp