What is the current information regarding fuliginosa s.s. vs. nominate pectoralis? Has it been sampled in any of the recent molecular analyses?
- ANWC B42504, a male from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, sampled by Andersen et al. 2014 [
pdf], was initially thought to have been
youngi, then re-identified as an eastern
fuliginosa (see "Correction", between the "Acknowledgements" and the "References" in the paper).
- MV0372, a female from the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, sampled by Jønsson et al. 2008 [
pdf] & 2014 [
pdf] and called
youngi by these authors, is in fact also an eastern
fuliginosa according to Joseph, Nyári & Andersen 2014. (This specimen is listed in the [
OZCAM database].)
- Last, Joseph, Nyári & Andersen 2014 reported having sequenced the nd2 and nd3 genes of 11 additional females eastern
fuliginosa.
Jønsson et al.'s sequences are in [
GenBank] and, in this data set, the
fuliginosa specimen appears completely undifferentiated from
youngi. Andersen et al. declared the deposition of their sequences, but listed no accession numbers and I can't find them, so presumably they have not been released for public access yet. Their tree was computed before the
fuliginosa specimen was re-identified as such, and does not allow the identification of this particular individual from other East Australian samples; but this individual certainly grouped with other eastern birds. Joseph, Nyári & Andersen did not publish their sequences (as far as I can see), and provided a tree showing nothing more than relationships between broad genetic clusters, not between individuals; they wrote that their eastern
fuliginosa "align with"
youngi and
pectoralis.
