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So, there we have it. A new paper about tapaculo taxonomy and write-up of a nice new taxon based on a fieldwork discovery, whose only impact and cause of interest on this forum is a few checklist folks deleting a single word from the English name. What a valuable usage of time and effort!!:cat:
 
errr....this is a layman birders forum, full of people who are unfamiliar with Tapaculos (I have never even birded south of the Mexican border).

This might not be the best source to pursue validation for your research
 
thomasdonegan said:
So, there we have it. A new paper about tapaculo taxonomy and write-up of a nice new taxon based on a fieldwork discovery, whose only impact and cause of interest on this forum is a few checklist folks deleting a single word from the English name. What a valuable usage of time and effort!!:cat:
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Thomas, your paper was published in an increasingly anachronistic print-only journal with a very limited circulation (~400 worldwide), which also discourages authors from posting pdfs on personal or institutional websites. The paper is therefore effectively unavailable to all but a small taxonomy clique (probably including very few Colombian birders, to whom it would presumably be of most interest). Given such restricted access, it's surely unsurprising that it hasn't stimulated much discussion on a general birding forum.

But nevertheless yariguiorum has been recognised in IOC World Bird List v4.2 and HBW Alive, and will no doubt also be recognised in H&M4; and the revised vernacular name that you proposed for Scytalopus rodriguezi to reflect its widened scope has been accepted by SACC, IOC and TiF. Perhaps you should submit a more assertive proposal to SACC to recognise yariguiorum as a distinct species...

PS. I recently scanned the paper for a friend. If anyone wants a copy, PM me.
 
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Sorry guys, was not trying to cause controversy or complain or cry for recognition. Just noting when tired working late on a Friday that what seem like very minor issues in a paper (minor changes to English names) end up with quite a lot of airtime in recent postings and the outside world! Still, thanks a lot for the appreciated positive feedback here.
 
Perijá

Forthcoming...

Avendaño, Cuervo, López-O, Gutiérrez-Pinto & Cadena (in review). A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae, Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela.

Ref: Donegan & Avendaño-C 2008. Notes on tapaculos (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) of the Eastern Andes of Colombia and the Venezuelan Andes, with a new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis from Colombia. Ornitol Colomb 6: 24–65. [pdf]
 
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Maurício et al 2014

Maurício, Belmonte-Lopes, Pacheco, Silveira, Whitney & Bornschein 2014. Taxonomy of "Mouse-colored Tapaculos" (II): An endangered new species from the montane Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus). Auk 131(4): 643–659. [abstract]

PS. Scytalopus gonzagai Bahian Mouse-coloured Tapaculo added to HBW Alive (Recently described species and subspecies), 28 Aug 2014.
 
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Scytalopus gonzagai

Richard Klim said:
Maurício, Belmonte-Lopes, Pacheco, Silveira, Whitney & Bornschein 2014. Taxonomy of "Mouse-colored Tapaculos" (II): An endangered new species from the montane Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus). Auk 131(4): 643–659. [abstract]

PS. Scytalopus gonzagai Bahian Mouse-coloured Tapaculo added to HBW Alive (Recently described species and subspecies), 28 Aug 2014.
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Proposal (643) to SACC:
Recognize Scytalopus gonzagai as a valid species
 
TiF Update September 3

Based on Maurício et al. (2014), the Bahian Mouse-colored Tapaculo, Scytalopus gonzagai, has been split from the Mouse-colored Tapaculo, Scytalopus speluncae. For now, the latter takes the name Common Mouse-colored Tapaculo. This may change once the SACC decides on proposal #643. I've also slightly adjusted the position of the Rock Tapaculo to better conform to Mata et al. (2009).
 
Richard Klim said:
Maurício, Belmonte-Lopes, Pacheco, Silveira, Whitney & Bornschein 2014. Taxonomy of "Mouse-colored Tapaculos" (II): An endangered new species from the montane Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus). Auk 131(4): 643–659. [abstract]

PS. Scytalopus gonzagai Bahian Mouse-coloured Tapaculo added to HBW Alive (Recently described species and subspecies), 28 Aug 2014.
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IOC Update Diary Sept 6:
Post Bahian Mouse-colored Tapaculo on Updates/NEW
 
Scytalopus gonzagai

Peter Kovalik said:
Proposal (643) to SACC:
Recognize Scytalopus gonzagai as a valid species
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Proposal passed, 2 Dec 2014 (but not yet implemented because of English name issue)...
Note from Remsen on English name: The original paper used the English name 'Bahian Mouse-colored Tapaculo' as the recommended English name. However, this would conflict with general principles of English names in that there is already a species 'Mouse-colored Tapaculo' (S. speluncae) without a modifier, and thus the traditional name Mouse-colored Tapaculo would require a modifier if 'Bahian Mouse-colored Tapaculo' were adopted. (This is not the Brazilian authors' fault! – the Auk was asleep at the wheel on this.). So, we will need a separate proposal on English names. The name 'Bahia Tapaculo is preoccupied by Eleoscytalopus psychopompus, so use of 'Bahian' even in a compound name would create confusion.
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