https://www.africanbirdclub.org/bul...olin-scleroptila-elgonensis-should-be-treatedMoorland Francolin Scleroptila psilolaema is generally considered to comprise four subspecies in the highlands of Ethiopia, Kenya and eastern Uganda. This treatment is based on the shared habitat preferences (Afro-al
pine moorland) and supposedly similar plumage characteristics of the four taxa, although prior to 1963 they were not treated as conspecific. To determine whether this approach is strongly supported, we examined vocal and morphological evidence, and reviewed the available genetic data. The vocal data in particular displayed qualitative differences, with vocalisations of Elgon Francolin being more similar to those of Shelley’s Francolin S. shelleyi and Archer’s (Orange River) Francolin S. gutturalis than those of Moorland Francolin. We conclude that Ethiopian birds (‘Moorland Francolin’ S. psilolaema) and Kenyan / Ugandan birds (‘Elgon Francolin’ S. elgonensis) should be treated as separate species.
Mandiwana-Neudani T.G., Little R.M., Crowe T.M. & Bowie R.C.K., 2018. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of African spurfowls (Galliformes, Phasianidae, Coturnicinae, Pternistis spp.). bioRxiv
Anyone know why eBird/Clements treats Scaly Francolin (Spurfowl) as monotypic?
Since lathami is the type species of Peliperdix Bonaparte, 1856, Afrocolinus is already a junior synonym of Peliperdix
Does anyone have the final paper please ?
Can't believe they're still using Afrocolinus - apparently they don't read this forum
I will send you the paper
Crowe TM, Mandiwana-Neudani TG, Donsker DB, Bowie RCK, Little RM. 2020. Resolving nomenclatural ‘confusion’ vis-à-vis Latham’s Francolin (Francolinus/Peliperdix/Afrocolinus lathami) and the ‘Red-tailed’ francolins (Francolinus/Ortygornis/Peliperdix spp.). Ostrich: in press.The authors are aware about this mistake and they will fix it.
Family: Phasianidae Horsfield, 1821
Subfamily: Phasianinae Horsfield, 1821
Tribe: Gallini Brehm, 1831
Genus: Campocolinus Crowe, Mandiwana-Neudani, Donsker, Bowie and Little, gen. nov.
Type species: Perdix coqui A. Smith, 1836
Etymology: Formed by two words, campo meaning savanna and colinus for ‘quail’
Gender: Masculine
Crowe TM, Mandiwana-Neudani TG, Donsker DB, Bowie RCK, Little RM. 2020. Resolving nomenclatural ‘confusion’ vis-à-vis Latham’s Francolin (Francolinus/Peliperdix/Afrocolinus lathami) and the ‘Red-tailed’ francolins (Francolinus/Ortygornis/Peliperdix spp.). Ostrich: in press.
https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1723140
Abstract
We provide an addendum vis-à-vis Mandiwana-Neudani et al. (2019a) on the taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of ‘true’ francolins: Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Gallini; Francolinus, Ortygornis, Afrocolinus gen. nov., Peliperdix and Scleroptila spp., Mandiwana-Neudani et al. (2019b). Mandiwana-Neudani et al. (2019a) proposed the use of a new generic epithet, Afrocolinus, for Latham’s Francolin Francolinus lathami and restricting Peliperdix to an expanded set of Hall’s (1963) Red-tailed francolins. However, Afrocolinus cannot be used for lathami, because lathami is the type species for the genus Peliperdix (Bonaparte, 1856). We suggest a solution to resolve this nomenclatural conundrum; restrict the use of Peliperdix to lathami and move species taxa currently placed in Peliperdix into a new genus, namely Campocolinus.
(Note that the name is not published online in the sense of the Code, and thus not available yet. It will be available only once the paper version is published.)
The paper is OK as it is: it just needs being published on paper now.Rob little sent me his manuscript last November, glad to see his name will be officially published soon.. (at least I hope because it would p*** me off that this name is not available since I added it in my list since last year)
The paper is OK as it is: it just needs being published on paper now.
Ostrich is still printed (I believe -- there are more and more journals that go quietly online-only these days, and it can sometimes be hard to find out...), so this should in principle not be a problem.