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  1. TicoTyler

    The Fun Taxonomic History of Selasphorus flammula

    Yes, that's very interesting and you're correct. I had assumed (mistakenly) that they sampled the three subspecies but I believe that simoni was not sampled in this study then. So it appears that is the difference between flammula and torridus. Simoni is the one that I think has the most...
  2. TicoTyler

    The Fun Taxonomic History of Selasphorus flammula

    For someone who has a rudimentary understanding at best of this could you explain what you see in this paper in terms of the significance of genetic differences?
  3. TicoTyler

    The Fun Taxonomic History of Selasphorus flammula

    Was able to get this fixed. Thanks for pointing it out Guy. @GMK
  4. TicoTyler

    The Fun Taxonomic History of Selasphorus flammula

    That's all the information I've been able to find and requests to both authors for more information went unanswered.
  5. TicoTyler

    The Fun Taxonomic History of Selasphorus flammula

    To address the second part separately, yes you're correct. There's a discrepancy in the text there. The introduction says that: However, the details for the subspecies link to the 1870 Proceedings of The Zoological Society of London where Salvin says he received six individuals. I'll see if...
  6. TicoTyler

    The Fun Taxonomic History of Selasphorus flammula

    Thanks, as I was copying and pasting this over from BOW last night and cleaning up the formatting IDK why I suddenly added Smithsonian for some reason, which isn't in the BOW text. I was previous to writing this post reading something about Ridgway - Zeledón and I think I just got Smithsonian...
  7. TicoTyler

    The Fun Taxonomic History of Selasphorus flammula

    There were two papers I referenced, this is the full phylogeny of the clade from a 2014 paper: And then I believe this 2017 analysis was based on the data from 2014 (See page 7). Eventually I'll get around to updating Opus with some more info based on what I've written for BOW.
  8. TicoTyler

    The Fun Taxonomic History of Selasphorus flammula

    Over the the course of the last year, I've worked on revising the Birds of the World article for the Volcano Hummingbird. By far the most fascinating part of the account for me was writing about the history of its treatment as a species or two or three. I've quoted some of what I wrote there to...
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