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S&M only accepts this species. H&M and Clements (until the last update) split it into Green-bellied and Copper-tailed. Now it's lumped again in Clements. So one to lump?

André

wintibird said:

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S&M only accepts this species. H&M and Clements (until the last update) split it into Green-bellied and Copper-tailed. Now it's lumped again in Clements. So one to lump?

André

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You really looked closely at this one, to discover that clements in the latest online update had lumped: Avibase does not list that. The funny thing is that the entry you link to really already looks like a lumped version, stating the two groups.

Anyway, I would go along with lumping this, but for completeness, there need to be a link under taxonomy to the sacc page http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~remsen/SACCprop168.html and a sentence in the taxonomy section stating that even though the species have been split into two species according to some authorities, the SACC seems to agree that the correct number of species is likely to be either 1 or probably more than 2 ...

It is a mess, we must hope that someone clears it up.

It will be a great problem to device a search for the lumped species which finds most of the pictures in the gallery (if there were any ).

Niels

njlarsen said:

You really looked closely at this one, to discover that clements in the latest online update had lumped: Avibase does not list that. The funny thing is that the entry you link to really already looks like a lumped version, stating the two groups.

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It wasn't me actually, Delia did the taxonomy entry based on Clements and felt that there is something wrong...
I will get a go at this and lump the two articles with the link you proposed.

André