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Locustellidae (1 Viewer)

Revised classification

Includes the following sampled taxa...

Locustella:

  • mandelli
    [*]montis
    [*]alishanensis
    [*]kashmirensis
    [*]thoracica
    [*]davidi
    [*]castanea
    [*]caudata
    [*]naevia
    [*]major
    [*]tacsanowskia
    [*]luteoventris
    [*]fluviatilis
    [*]luscinioides
    [*]lanceolata
    [*]ochotensis
    [*]pleskei
    [*]certhiola
    [*]pryeri
    [*]amnicola
    (provisionally split from fasciolata)
  • fasciolata
Bradypterus:

  • baboecala
    [*]carpalis
    [*]'baboecala'
    (Nigeria - B centralis?)
  • graueri
    [*]brunneus
    [*]sylvaticus
    [*]cinnamomeus
    [*]lopezi
    [*]bangwaensis
    [*]barratti
Schoenicola:

  • brevirostris
Megalurus:

  • palustris
    [*]mathewsi
    [*]timoriensis
    [*]cruralis
    [*]gramineus
    [*]punctatus
    [*]carteri
Richard
 
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"Schoenicola is provisionally retained, pending further studies of its
affinities based on additional loci and inclusion of the other species of Schoenicola (S.
platyurus, south India) and the two missing African Bradypterus" (grandis, alfredi)
 
Trainor, Verbelen & Hoste (in press). Rediscovery of the Timor Bush Warbler Locustella timorensis on Alor and Timor, Wallacea: clarifying taxonomic affinities, defining habitat and survey recommendations. Bird Conserv Int.

Richard,
I may have overlooked the occasion, but when did the change from'Filip' Verbelen to 'Phillipe' happen (assuming they are one and the same)? All that time I've acknowledged the Flemish origin, and now it transmutes to French!;)
MJB
 
I may have overlooked the occasion, but when did the change from'Filip' Verbelen to 'Phillipe' happen (assuming they are one and the same)? All that time I've acknowledged the Flemish origin, and now it transmutes to French!;)
Well, Elio Di Rupo's Dutch isn't very good... ;)
 
Alström, Fregin, Norman, Ericson, Christidis & Olsson 2011. Multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset reveal extensive non-monophyly in the avian family Locustellidae. Mol Phyl Evol: in press.
www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...8693472023f44685968ae68d2c919c84&searchtype=a

[As anticipated in Kennerley & Pearson 2010: www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=1963695&postcount=1]

Richard

IOC Taxonomy Updates - V2.11:
REVISE CLASSIFICATION OF LOCUSTELLIDAE TO FOLLOW ALSTRÖM ET AL 2011A
 
Savi's Warbler

Neto, Arroyo, Bargain, Monrós, Mátrai, Procházka & Zehtindjiev 2012. Phylogeography of a habitat specialist with high dispersal capability: the Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38497. [pdf]
 
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Timor Bush Warbler

Trainor, Verbelen & Hoste (in press). Rediscovery of the Timor Bush Warbler Locustella timorensis on Alor and Timor, Wallacea: clarifying taxonomic affinities, defining habitat and survey recommendations. Bird Conserv Int. [abstract]
Verbelen & Trainor 2012. Rediscovery of the Timor Bush Warbler Locustella (Bradypterus) timorensis on Alor and Timor, Wallacea, Indonesia. BirdingASIA 17: 47–48.
Differences in vocalisations between birds on Alor and those on Timor suggest that the Alor population might be at least subspecifically distinct.
Includes Rob Hutchinson's IBC photograph.
 
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Pacific clade

Forthcoming...

Drovetski, Semenov, Red'kin, Sotnikov, Fadeev & Koblik (in press). Effects of asymmetric nuclear introgression, introgressive mitochondrial sweep, and purifying selection on phylogenetic reconstruction and divergence estimates in the Pacific clade of Locustella warblers. PLoS ONE e122590.
 
Grasshopper Warbler

Miles & Collinson 2015. 'Eastern Grasshopper Warbler' on Fair Isle: new to Britain. Brit Birds 108(4): 231–236.
Abstract A Grasshopper Warbler Locustella naevia was trapped, ringed and released on Fair Isle on 20th September 2012. The wing length was below the range of the nominate race but matched that for 'Eastern Grasshopper Warbler' Locustella naevia straminea/mongolica. DNA analysis confirmed a close match with two birds collected on the breeding grounds... This is the first record of one of the eastern races of Grasshopper Warbler in Britain.
...
Editorial comment ... Martin Collinson, Chairman of BOURC, commented: '... The differences between straminea and mongolica are slight, and, as suggested above [Stepanyan (2003) and Kennerley & Pearson (2010)], these subspecies may be synonymised. ...
'No very thorough phylogenetic study of Grasshopper Warbler, incorporating samples of all four subspecies from across the range of the species, has yet been published. The data from Krasnodar suggest there is much we still do not know about the geographic nature of genetic variation in this species – there may be some surprises in store. Should the eastern and western subspecies groups be split in future, the Fair Isle record will take on added importance.'
Pearson 2006 (HBW 11).
 
Pacific clade

Forthcoming...
Drovetski, Semenov, Red'kin, Sotnikov, Fadeev & Koblik (in press). Effects of asymmetric nuclear introgression, introgressive mitochondrial sweep, and purifying selection on phylogenetic reconstruction and divergence estimates in the Pacific clade of Locustella warblers. PLoS ONE e122590.
Drovetski, Semenov, Red'kin, Sotnikov, Fadeev & Koblik 2015. Effects of asymmetric nuclear introgression, introgressive mitochondrial sweep, and purifying selection on phylogenetic reconstruction and divergence estimates in the Pacific clade of Locustella warblers. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122590. [article] [pdf]
 
Forthcoming
Article: Integrative taxonomy of the Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli complex reveals a new species from central China
Per Alström, Canwei Xia, Pamela C Rasmussen, Urban Olsson, Bo Dai, Jian Zhao, Paul J Leader, Geoff J Carey, Lu Dong, Tianlong Cai, Paul I Holt, Hung Le Manh, Gang Song, Yang Liu, Yanyun Zhang, Fumin Lei

12/2015; 6(1). DOI:10.1186/s40657-015-0016-z
 
Russet Bush Warbler

Forthcoming
Article: Integrative taxonomy of the Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli complex reveals a new species from central China
Per Alström, Canwei Xia, Pamela C Rasmussen, Urban Olsson, Bo Dai, Jian Zhao, Paul J Leader, Geoff J Carey, Lu Dong, Tianlong Cai, Paul I Holt, Hung Le Manh, Gang Song, Yang Liu, Yanyun Zhang, Fumin Lei
12/2015; 6(1). DOI:10.1186/s40657-015-0016-z
Avian Res, but it can't be article 6(1) (= Wu et al 2015, Passerida). Perhaps 6(12)?

Madge 2006 (HBW 11)...
Birds in C China (Sichuan) seem to be vocally somewhat different from other populations, and may represent an as yet undescribed taxon.
... song on Emei Shan (Sichuan, in C China) distinctly lower in pitch than that of nominate.
Dickinson, Rasmussen, Round & Rozendaal 2000. Systematic notes on Asian birds. 1. A review of the russet bush-warbler Bradypterus seebohmi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1895). Zool Verh Leiden 331: 11–64. [pdf]
 
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Forthcoming
Article: Integrative taxonomy of the Russet Bush Warbler Locustella mandelli complex reveals a new species from central China
Per Alström, Canwei Xia, Pamela C Rasmussen, Urban Olsson, Bo Dai, Jian Zhao, Paul J Leader, Geoff J Carey, Lu Dong, Tianlong Cai, Paul I Holt, Hung Le Manh, Gang Song, Yang Liu, Yanyun Zhang, Fumin Lei

12/2015; 6(1). DOI:10.1186/s40657-015-0016-z

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