Michael Frankis said:
Hi Rasmus,
No mention of Patagioenas in Lynx HBW. Would it also include Band-tailed Pigeon (Columba fasciata)? How widely accepted is the new genus?
Michael
Hi Michael, Rasmus,
The substitution of the generic name Patagioenas is followed in the SM (updated 2003) and the Clement's 5° Ed. (updated 2003). The Howard & Moore 3° Ed. 2003 does not fall in line with this interpretation.
The current work being done on the SACC baseline list seems to be coming down on the placement of new world Columba into genus Patagioenas.
http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline03.html
1. Although the monophyly of the Columbiformes has never been seriously questioned, its closest relatives are uncertain and remain unresolved. Traditional classifications (e.g., Gibbs et al. 2001) treat the huge, extinct flightless pigeons of the Mascarene Islands as a separate family, Raphidae, but recognition of this family would certainly make both families paraphyletic because it would seem impossible that the three species of "Raphidae" are each others' closest relatives, but instead represent three independent colonizations of separate islands with subsequent convergent evolution <find citation, if one exists>. Within the Columbidae, Goodwin (1983) recognized five subfamilies, only one of which, Columbinae, occurs in the Western Hemisphere. Whether these subfamily designations correspond to deep splits in the family is not yet confirmed, and so the subfamily designation is omitted here. In fact, genetic data (Johnson 2004) indicate that the New World ground-doves are a distinctive group that are the sister group to a large sample of Old World and New World genera. SACC proposal pending to change linear sequence of genera.
2. Populations in South America are feral or semi-feral derivatives of domesticated stock.
3. Called "Rock Pigeon" in Sibley & Monroe (1990), Ridgely & Greenfield (2001), and (Hilty 2003). SACC proposal pending to change English name.
4. Johnson & Clayton (2000a), Johnson et al. (2001), and Johnson (2004) found strong evidence that Columba is paraphyletic, with Old World Columba more closely related to Streptopelia than to New World "Columba." This is consistent with previously recognized differences between New World and Old World Columba in terms of morphology (Ridgway 1916), serology (Cumley & Irwin 1944), and behavior (Johnston 1962, <?> Goodwin 1959a). Johnston (1962), however, considered the P. fasciata superspecies to be more closely related to Old World Columba than to New World species due to plumage characters (but see Goodwin 1983); genetic data (Johnson et al. 2001) indicate that fasciata is basal to other New World, but that they still form a monophyletic . <incorp. Goodwin 1959>. The New World taxa are here placed in the genus Patagioenas. SACC Proposal passed to recognize Patagioenas. The AOU has also made this change (Banks et al. 2003).