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Streptopelia orientalis (mt genome)

Huang, Tu & Murphy. 2016. Analysis of the complete mitogenome of Oriental turtle dove (Streptopelia orientalis) and implications for species divergence. Biochem. System. Ecol. 65:209-213.
[abstract] [pdf]
 
The type species of the genus Geotrygon Gosse, 1847 (Aves: Columbidae)
JIŘÍ MLÍKOVSKÝ
Zootaxa Vol 4126, No 1, 16 June 2016

Abstract

The generic name Geotrygon was introduced by Gosse (1847: 316) for some doves from the island of Jamaica and has been subsequently used for the so-called quail-doves of Middle and South America (Baptista et al. 1997; Gibbs et al. 2001; Dickinson 2003; Dickinson & Remsen 2013). Johnson & Weckstein (2011) and Banks et al. (2013) indicated that this genus is polyphyletic. The application of a generic name is determined by its type species (Art. 42.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; ICZN 1999; hereafter the Code). A literature search showed that different nominal species have been proposed as the type species of Geotrygon, and the situation thus requires clarification.

Keywords

Aves, Columbidae

http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4126.1.8
 
type species of Geotrygon Gosse

Has anyone seen the paper?

Geotrygon Gosse 1847 [OD]
The originally included nominal species are Geotrygon sylvatica Gosse 1847 and Geotrygon montana = Columba montana Linn. 1758 (with "C. martinica Temm." = C. martinica Linn. 1766 sensu Temminck, cited as a synonym). No original type fixation, a subsequent designation is needed.

- H&M4 recognised a type fixation by subsequent designation of Reichenbach 1853 [here], of "Columba cristata Temminck 1809" (preoccupied name; now in the synonymy of Geotrygon versicolor (Lafresnaye 1846)). Actually, Reichenbach designated Col. cristata Lath. (which is [this] = C. cristata Gmelin 1789 [OD], now in the synonymy of Rollulus rouloul (Scopoli 1786) (!)), although he added references to his figures 2482-3 [here] and 2599 [here], which (I think...) show the taxonomic species that Gosse had called Geotrygon sylvatica. Anyway, as there is no such name cited in the OD, no "Columba cristata" is eligible to become the type species, and this designation is invalid.
- Gray 1855 [here] designated Columba cristata Temminck. Invalid again.
- Bonaparte 1855, in Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons, originally published in the C R Hebd Séan Acad Sci Paris [here], stated under the 8th and last species that he included in the genus that it was the type, but he did not cite any available name for it. Invalid.
- In the separates of the same work [here], Bonaparte revised this text extensively, moved this particular species in first position, stated that Temminck had named it Col. cristata, and that it was the type. Invalid again.

- Salvadori 1893 includes a potentially valid fixation: he again designated Geotrygon cristata as the type of the genus [here] but, unlike the other authors, he listed Geotrygon sylvatica Gosse in the synonymy of his Geotrygon cristata [here]. In this case, the designation of Geotrygon cristata amounts to a fixation of Geotrygon sylvatica Gosse as the type species (ICZN Art 69.2.2).

But maybe there is something else in between?

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If interested:
Johnson & Weckstein 2011: [pdf here]
Banks et al 2013: [pdf]
 
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Columbiformes & feather lice

Sweet, Boyd, Johnson. [in press.] Cophylogenetic patterns are uncorrelated between two lineages of parasites on the same hosts. Biol J Linn Soc.
[abstract & supp.info] [pdf]

(Has been online for some time but I can't find it mentioned here.)
 
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No, "The term "designation" in relation to fixation of a type species [Arts. 68, 69] must be rigidly construed" (ICZN Art 67.5).
If he doesn't say it's the type (or something strictly equivalent to that), it's not a type designation.
 
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Pampusanna vs. Pampusana: a nomenclatural conundrum resolved, along with associated errors and oversights
Murray Bruce, Norbert Bahr & Normand David
Bull BOC 2016 - 136(2): 86-100.

Summary.—The recent split of the genus Gallicolumba prompted a reassessment of its synonymy, revealing that Pampusana Bonaparte, 1855, is available to replace both Alopecoenas and subgenus Terricolumba, while Pampusanna Pucheran, 1854, is a synonym of Gallicolumba. We also show that the original publications of their type species should be shifted, from Columba pampusan Quoy & Gaimard, 1824, to Columba Pampusan Gaimard, 1823, in Pampusana and Pampusanna criniger Pucheran, 1853 [= 1854] to Peristera crinigera Reichenbach, 1851, in Pampusanna. The index pages of Reichenbach (1851) are very rare and a copy is reproduced herein, along with two plate variations demonstrating that despite frequent reference to plates and figures in Reichenbach’s earlier works, new names there are based on the index pages intended to accompany the plates, and that any captions on plates were
handwritten. Additional names also required earlier citations and other errors and oversights are documented, as well as bibliographical corrections and clarifications.
 
Claravinae ground-doves & Columbicola lice

Sweet AD, Johnson KP. 2016. Cophylogenetic analysis of New World ground-doves (Aves: Columbidae) and their parasitic wing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Columbicola). Mol Phylogenet Evol 103:122-132.
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Andrew D. Sweet, J. Dylan Maddox & Kevin P. Johnson. A complete molecular phylogeny of Claravis confirms its paraphyly within small New World ground-doves (Aves: Peristerinae) and implies multiple plumage state transitions. Journal of Avian Biology, Accepted manuscript online: 13 August 2016.

abstract

In agreement with Sweet and Johnson (2015), we recovered Claravis as paraphyletic, with C. pretiosa recovered as sister to the rest of the small New World ground-dove clade, and C. geoffroyi/C. mondetoura nested within the clade
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Peter Kovalik said:
Andrew D. Sweet, J. Dylan Maddox & Kevin P. Johnson. A complete molecular phylogeny of Claravis confirms its paraphyly within small New World ground-doves (Aves: Peristerinae) and implies multiple plumage state transitions. Journal of Avian Biology, Accepted manuscript online: 13 August 2016.

abstract
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Yes, huh, and Claravis pretiosa ? I'm eager to read that.
 
Geotrygon linearis trinitatis

Mlíkovský, Jirí:
Taxonomic status of Geotrygon linearis trinitatis Hellmayr & Seilern, 1912 (Aves, Columbidae)

Spixiana, vol 34, issue 1 (September 2016)

Abstract:

Mlíkovský, J. 2016. Taxonomic status of Geotrygon linearis trinitatis Hellmayr & Seilern, 1912 (Aves, Columbidae). Spixiana 39 (1): 141 - 144.

The metapopulation of Geotrygon quail-doves inhabiting the island of Trinidad and the nearby part of continental Venezuela was treated as a subspecies of Geo* trygon linearis (Prévost) or as a synonym of Geotrygon linearis linearis (Prévost). A revision of the holotype of G. linearis and the study of further specimens from Trinidad showed that Geotrygon trinitatis Hellmayr & Seilern, new rank, deserves a status of a full species. Ji r í Mlíkovský, Department of Zoology, National Museum, Václavské nám e stí 68, 115 79 Praha 1, Czech Republic;

e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/spix39_1_22.pdf
 
André E. R. Soares, Ben J. Novak, James Haile, Tim H. Heupink, Jon Fjeldså, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Hendrik Poinar, George M. Church and Beth Shapiro. Complete mitochondrial genomes of living and extinct pigeons revise the timing of the columbiform radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2016) 16:230
DOI 10.1186/s12862-016-0800-3

[pdf]
 
Melanie said:
Mlíkovský, Jirí:
Taxonomic status of Geotrygon linearis trinitatis Hellmayr & Seilern, 1912 (Aves, Columbidae)

Spixiana, vol 34, issue 1 (September 2016)

Abstract:

Mlíkovský, J. 2016. Taxonomic status of Geotrygon linearis trinitatis Hellmayr & Seilern, 1912 (Aves, Columbidae). Spixiana 39 (1): 141 - 144.

The metapopulation of Geotrygon quail-doves inhabiting the island of Trinidad and the nearby part of continental Venezuela was treated as a subspecies of Geo* trygon linearis (Prévost) or as a synonym of Geotrygon linearis linearis (Prévost). A revision of the holotype of G. linearis and the study of further specimens from Trinidad showed that Geotrygon trinitatis Hellmayr & Seilern, new rank, deserves a status of a full species. Ji r í Mlíkovský, Department of Zoology, National Museum, Václavské nám e stí 68, 115 79 Praha 1, Czech Republic;

e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/spix39_1_22.pdf
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Proposal (733) to SACC

Elevate Zentrygon linearis trinitatis to species rank
 
Peter Kovalik said:
IOC 7.2 Species Updates

Alopecoenas norfolkensis

Restore. Originally listed as Gallicolumba norfolciensis (Latham, 1801) but that name permanently surpressed by the ICZN. Redescribed by Forshaw, 2015 based on a contemporary illustration by John Hunter.
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I have some quetions: why was the Latham name surpressed ?
Should the species now be known as Alopecoenas norfolkensis Forshaw, 2015.?
Why did he change the epithet from norfolciensis to norfolkensis ?

Fred Ruhe
 
Fred Ruhe said:
I have some quetions: why was the Latham name surpressed ?
Should the species now be known as Alopecoenas norfolkensis Forshaw, 2015.?
Why did he change the epithet from norfolciensis to norfolkensis ?

Fred Ruhe
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HBW/BL: Until recently the ground-dove species reported from Norfolk I was associated with the name Columba norfolciensis Latham, 1801; however, there is no type specimen for this name, and original description appears to be composite, perhaps referring to both Columba leucomela (infrequent vagrant to Norfolk I) and Chalcophaps longirostris (present on Norfolk I, possibly introduced), due to incertain identity, combined with confused usage spanning three rather different genera, this name has now been formally suppressed. Indeed, a fourth genus might now been applied, as with recent split of genus Gallicolumba (which see), present species, if valid, would most likely belong in Alopecoenas. Validity of species requires confirmation.

The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature OPINION 2251 (Case 3442) Columba norfolciensis Latham, 1801 (Aves, COLUMBIDAE): name suppressed. The Commission has suppressed the ambiguous binomen Columba norfolciensis Latham, 1801, which has been applied to three different species in different columbid genera within the last hundred years.
 
And I have another question:

What did Forshaw designate as the holotype ? Is it the painting or is it the subfossil material ?

Who knows ?

Fred Ruhe
 
Fred,

The holotype is the bird that Hunter painted (not 'the painting' itself): this is indicated in the plate caption on p.84 of Forshaw's work, [here].

Suppression was requested by Schodde & Bock 2008 [abstract], based on an argument that included:
Because of such conflicting recent usages, the SCON considered Columba norfolciensis a source of confusion that would remain so into the immediate future or beyond; and it therefore resolved to apply to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature for suppression of the name. It viewed such action as helping to maintain the in-use specific name Columba leucomela Temminck, 1821 for the Australian white-headed pigeon and the subspecific name Chalcophaps indica sandwichensis Ramsay for the form of the common emerald dove in the southwest Pacific. Moreover, it would facilitate naming subfossil columbid material from Norfolk Island when the identity of that material became fully clarified.
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The bird illustrated by Hunter should now be called Alopecoenas norfolkensis Forshaw, 2015 -- unless, of course, you think this bird was something else to which an earlier name applies (e.g., a Columba leucomela Temminck 1821).
As is usual in such cases, Latham's name was "suppressed for the Purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy" -- this means it cannot take priority over a junior name to become the valid name of a taxon, but it still preoccupies it own spelling and thus cannot become valid from a later publication. The same epithet cannot be proposed again.
 
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