Peter Kovalik
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Nestor chathamensis Wood, Mitchell, Scofield & Tennyson but not Wilmshurst, Llamas & Cooper?
That's exactly how the name is stated in the paper, citing only the principal authors.Nestor chathamensis Wood, Mitchell, Scofield & Tennyson but not Wilmshurst, Llamas & Cooper?
Published 24 Feb 2012...
- Joseph, Toon, Schirtzinger, Wright & Schodde 2012. A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes). Zootaxa 3205: 26–40. [preview]
Strigopidae
Nestoridae
Cacatuidae (Nymphicinae, Calyptorhynchinae, Cacatuinae)
Psittacidae (Psittacinae, Arinae)
Psittrichasidae (Psittrichasinae, Coracopseinae)
Psittaculidae (Platycercinae, Psittacellinae, Loriinae, Agapornithinae, Psittaculinae)
A link to the paper is also available here:
http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/twright/publications.html
I wonder if the taxonomy proposed here will be followed by any major taxonomic authorities?
It would make impossible to twitch every bird family on Earth (kakapo), so people may not be interested in it.
Well, there is a photo in the Opus, so someone has seen the species: http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Kakapo
Niels
I have no idea where the photos on OPUS are from, but IIRC there are birdforum members who have seen wild Kakapo. Apparently you can volunteer to do conservation work with the Kakapo and see them that way, although their is a wait list and it requires a substantial time commitment that the idle overseas birder looking for a tick is unlikely to want to invest in.
Olson 2015. History, morphology, and fossil record of the extinct Puerto Rican Parakeet Psittacara maugei Souancé. Wilson J Ornithol 127(1): 1–12. [abstract]
Hume & Walters 2012 (Extinct Birds): 'Mona Island Conure' Aratinga chloroptera maugei.
Collar, Boesman & Sharpe 2014 (HBW Alive).
Marina Somenzari, 2011. Taxonomia do complexo Pyrrhura lepida (Aves: Psittacidae). Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade de São Paulo. [PDF]
12a. Pyrrhura perlata and P. lepida form a superspecies (Haffer 1987, Collar 1997).
12b. Nomenclature of Pyrrhura perlata and P. lepida is confusing and complex. Arndt (1983) showed that the original types of perlata were actually referable to the name rhodogaster; thus, rhodogaster, long used as a species name (e.g., Peters 1937, Meyer de Schauensee 1970), becomes a junior synonym of perlata; the transfer of rhodogaster to the synonymy of perlata thus left the former in need of a name, the next oldest of which is lepida. Adding further confusion, Collar (1997) retained the English name "Pearly Parakeet" for lepida. proposal needed?
Schweizer, M., Wright, T.F., Peñalba, J.V., Schirtzinger, E.E., Joseph, L., Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2015), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.021
As usual, Laurent's helpful trick: [Fig 1] [Fig 2] [Fig 3] [Fig 4]. Fig 2: Parvipsitta pusilla, P porphyrocephala.Abstract
... We recognize Parvipsitta Mathews, 1916 for two species usually placed in Glossopsitta and we advocate transfer of Chalcopsitta cardinalis into Pseudeos Peters, 1935. ...
Concerning species-level systematics, we again stress that our taxon sampling has not been designed to address species limits within the highly polytypic Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus complex. del Hoyo and Collar (2014) divided the complex into seven species based on the scoring system of Tobias et al. (2010). We laud their pioneering effort to address what has clearly been a questionable and unsatisfactory classification. We consider their conclusions entirely premature, however, until phylogenetic relationships have been robustly determined within the group so that patterns of plumage evolution can be addressed in a phylogenetic framework. ...
Schweizer et al 2015. Mol Phylogenet Evol 90: 34–48. [pdf]Schweizer, M., Wright, T.F., Peñalba, J.V., Schirtzinger, E.E., Joseph, L., Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2015), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.021
John Boyd (TiF):Schweizer, M., Wright, T.F., Peñalba, J.V., Schirtzinger, E.E., Joseph, L., Molecular phylogenetics suggests a New Guinean origin and frequent episodes of founder-event speciation in the nectarivorous lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2015), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.021