Pernambuco Pygmy-Owl (1 Viewer)

What is the correct name ?

I read in Martens & Bahr 2007 that Glaucidium mooreorum is a junior synonym of G. minutissimum, and the name should be G. sicki König & Weick, 2005.

... or may be today Phaelaenopsis sicki.

Daniel,
There was a SACC proposal on this in 2006: http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~remsen/SACCprop243.html
The change to sicki was rejected at that time. (Things seem to be far from clear, actually...)

Recognizing Phalaenopsis is largely a matter of choice, I think. The data suggest that New World pygmy owls are a monophyletic group - many have been sampled, hence this result is probably solid. The three Old World species for which there are published sequences (passerinum, perlatum and tephronotum) seem to form a clade as well; but whether we have identified all of the phylogenetic structure in OW taxa with only these three species remains a bit speculative. There is no suggestion that the two groups are not sister to each other (as in Otus-Megascops): the generic split is based exclusively on genetic distances.

Cheers,
Laurent -

I did not pay attention to this SACC proposal and consequently did not read most ref attached to it.
I know more about this cute little bird now…

Thanks again,
Daniel