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l_raty replied to the thread Trochilidae.To have a type species validly designated, one needs a statement that it is the type of the genus-group name. The entries in Gray 1855... -
l_raty replied to the thread Cepphus grylle tajani Portenko, 1944.Original dedication: https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJ1HAQAAIAAJ&q=tayan (This is the English text; there should be Russian version...
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l_raty replied to the thread Trochilidae.No, indeed. But the Code does require the diagnosis to be intended to differentiate the taxon. I'm not at all sure that their...
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I had first interpreted that Leucolia still lacked a fixed type species. But I must agree with Laurent that, eventhough Bruce & Stiles...
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l_raty replied to the thread Trochilidae.Thanks, Vitor. Is Ramosomyia available ? Diagnosis: “[...] two species, both of which share white underparts, dull green to...
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l_raty reacted to George Sangster's post in the thread Forged phylogenies (Accipitridae, Caprimulgidae) with
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Hi Laurent, I agree that any phylogeny that contains one or more chimeras cannot be trusted. I had found the Amaurornis akool chimera... -
l_raty replied to the thread Circus taissiae Buturlin, 1908.Not the same name there, either (Tat'yana, not Taisiya). Таисия Михайловна Акимова (Вольфсон) (1874-1957), that you linked to above...
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l_raty replied to the thread Forged phylogenies (Accipitridae, Caprimulgidae).Howdy George, In https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-017-9982-x , Fig. 3, the authors recovered a sister-group relationship between...
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l_raty replied to the thread Circus taissiae Buturlin, 1908.According to https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287982432 , two specimens in the collection of the Zoological Museum of the Moscow...
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l_raty replied to the thread Circus taissiae Buturlin, 1908.Not clear to me either. Bangs 1930 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4246957 claimed that Buturlin "simply says" it, citing...
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l_raty replied to the thread Forged phylogenies (Accipitridae, Caprimulgidae).Chimeric sequences are commonplace in GenBank; it's also generally not too hard to find a chimeric mitogenome that was turned into a...
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l_raty replied to the thread Trochilidae.There is no problem. Bockakatoe was proposed explicitly as a "nom. nov. pro Kakatoe Cuvier 1800", which was then proposed for partial...
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l_raty replied to the thread Trochilidae.A replacement name is useful only if the original name cannot become valid for some reason -- the most frequent reason being indeed...
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l_raty replied to the thread Trochilidae.Yes, in effect, they have "inadvertently" pushed Leucolia aside, to put their own name in its place. (As I wrote above in #240, although...