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Avendaño, Cuervo, López-O, Gutiérrez-Pinto & Cadena (in review). A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae, Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela.

Ref: Donegan & Avendaño-C 2008. Notes on tapaculos (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) of the Eastern Andes of Colombia and the Venezuelan Andes, with a new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis from Colombia. Ornitol Colomb 6: 24–65. [pdf]


From Guy Kirwan:

"Remarks from the Recordist
Have included this population within meridanus, for now, given postulated relationship in Hilty (2003) and Salaman et al. (2007), and bearing in mind the discussion in Donegan & Avendaño-C. (2008), but it is to be described as a new taxon, presumably at species level, shortly."

http://www.xeno-canto.org/210219 - Merida Tapaculo (Scytalopus meridanus) - Guy Kirwan
http://www.xeno-canto.org/210221 - Merida Tapaculo (Scytalopus meridanus) - Guy Kirwan
http://www.xeno-canto.org/210222 - Merida Tapaculo (Scytalopus meridanus) - Guy Kirwan
 
Perijá Tapaculo

Forthcoming...
Avendaño, Cuervo, López-O, Gutiérrez-Pinto & Cadena (in review). A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae, Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela.

Ref: Donegan & Avendaño-C 2008. Notes on tapaculos (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) of the Eastern Andes of Colombia and the Venezuelan Andes, with a new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis from Colombia. Ornitol Colomb 6: 24–65. [pdf]
Avendaño, Cuervo, López-O, Gutiérrez-Pinto, Cortés-Diago & Cadena 2015. A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela. Auk 132(2): 450–466. [abstract] [pdf]
  • Scytalopus perijanus, sp. nov., Perijá Tapaculo, Tapaculo de Perijá
 
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Perijá Tapaculo

Avendaño, Cuervo, López-O, Gutiérrez-Pinto, Cortés-Diago & Cadena 2015. A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela. Auk 132(2): 450–466. [abstract] [pdf]
  • Scytalopus perijanus, sp. nov., Perijá Tapaculo, Tapaculo de Perijá
AOU & COS Publications Blog, 11 Mar 2015: A New Species of Tapaculo in South America.
 
Just to stress something that Richard made implicit in his posts: this is actually an open access paper, as also mentioned near the bottom of the blog Richard linked to :t:

Niels
 
Avendaño, Cuervo, López-O, Gutiérrez-Pinto, Cortés-Diago & Cadena 2015. A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela. Auk 132(2): 450–466. [abstract] [pdf]
  • Scytalopus perijanus, sp. nov., Perijá Tapaculo, Tapaculo de Perijá

TiF Update March 11

The newly discovered Perija Tapaculo, Scytalopus perijanus, has been added to the list (Avendaño et al., 2015).
 
It is very pleasing to see this description published finally. Congrats to the authors for getting it done and for having such a wealth of vocal, molecular, morphological, distributional, ecological and even nesting(!) data on this new species. I have the utmost respect for Jorge who had to deal with a number of difficult issues in bringing this publication to water.

The abstract does however include an extraordinary fabrication, which cannot have originated with the first author, and the paper incorrectly summarises previous research into the group. So here am I, complaining about Cuervo and Cadena papers again... for some of the same reasons as usual ...

Abstract: "Although specimens of this taxon have been available in museums since 1941, they were not carefully studied and were ascribed to different taxa of the latebricola and atratus groups."

Cf http://asociacioncolombianadeornitologia.org/wp-content/uploads/revista/oc6/doneganyavendano.pdf

Fig. 9 (p. 38) has a map showing this as a different species (sp.) with distribution shown.

Figure 10 illustrates a specimen as Scytalopus sp. alongside other taxa showing the differences.

Appendix 1 has a long list of specimens identified as Scytalopus sp. from Perija in Colombian and Venezuelan collections.

Appendix 2 contains biometric data for 28 specimens from Perija, broken down for males and females alongside data for other species and populations.

Text on pp.39-40: "Various specimens, most labelled “Scytalopus meridanus”, have been collected in the Serranía de Perijá (Appendix 1; Figs. 9 & 10). Although Krabbe & Schulenberg (2003) did not assign this population to any described taxon, Hilty (2003) and Salaman et al. (2007) treated it provisionally as related to S. meridanus. Plumage and biometrics suggest strongly that this population is related to either S. meridanus or S. griseicollis (Fig. 10). Although the Perijá population has been sound recorded (C. Sharpe in litt. 2007) and collected recently (Appendix 1), recordings were not available for this study such that we cannot make strong conclusions about its status. Perijá birds cluster closer with those from the Venezuelan Andes for biometrics (Fig. 8) and are differ from Eastern Andes specimens up to Level 1 (and, for southern populations, Level 2) in bill and wing length; and from the Yariguíes population in their shorter tail (Levels 1, 2, and 4). The Perijá population is isolated from nominate S. griseicollis populations and S. meridanus by the narrow, low-elevation section of the Andes in the Ocaña region which is a formidable barrier to high elevation fauna (Stattersfield et al. 1998). An undescribed Scytalopus taxon is clearly involved."

The authors of this description later state that that the new species had been considered "a subspecies related to S. griseicollis or S. meridanus based on morphology (Donegan and Avendano 2008)" which is simply an incorrect statement. It was called an "undescribed Scytalopus taxon" considered "related to" the latter taxa, and was labelled as "sp." (species) throughout the figures and appendices cited above.

I suppose these authors may be correct in that it could be considered quite "careless" of Jorge and I not to have just named this population back in 2008. However, whilst all the morphological data were available and clearly supported a description, we did not want to do so without vocal data as well. The authors of this paper have now thankfully managed to obtain and analyse sound recordings, clearly supporting species rank and they are to be congratulated for writing this up and naming the new species with so much other rich information. But it may have been more appropriate for them not to have bigged up their own contributions in this way or to have glossed so much over the groundwork made for this description by previous authors - whose work some authors had either clearly not read, just forgot about or decided to "edit out" of history as the MS progressed.
 
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Avendaño, Cuervo, López-O, Gutiérrez-Pinto, Cortés-Diago & Cadena 2015. A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela. Auk 132(2): 450–466. [abstract] [pdf]
  • Scytalopus perijanus, sp. nov., Perijá Tapaculo, Tapaculo de Perijá
AOU-SACC Proposal #670 (Avendaño, Mar 2015): Recognize Scytalopus perijanus as a valid species.
 
Pale-bellied Tapaculo

Donegan & Avendaño-C 2008. Notes on tapaculos (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) of the Eastern Andes of Colombia and the Venezuelan Andes, with a new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis from Colombia. Ornitol Colomb 6: 24–65. [pdf]
Avendaño & Donegan 2015. A distinctive new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis (Aves, Passeriformes, Rhinocryptidae) from the northern Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and Venezuela. ZooKeys 506: 137–153. [article]
  • Scytalopus griseicollis morenoi Avendaño & Donegan, ssp. n.
 
Pale-bellied Tapaculo

Avendaño & Donegan 2015. A distinctive new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis (Aves, Passeriformes, Rhinocryptidae) from the northern Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and Venezuela. ZooKeys 506: 137–153. [article]
  • Scytalopus griseicollis morenoi Avendaño & Donegan, ssp. n.
Still not acknowledged/listed by either HBW Alive or IOC...
 
Pale-bellied Tapaculo

Avendaño & Donegan 2015. A distinctive new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis (Aves, Passeriformes, Rhinocryptidae) from the northern Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and Venezuela. ZooKeys 506: 137–153. [article]
  • Scytalopus griseicollis morenoi Avendaño & Donegan, ssp. n.
Although still not listed by HBW Alive under Recently described species and subspecies (subscribers only), at least James is on the ball: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology...
morenoi
● Nelson Moreno Rodríguez (fl. 2000) Colombian ornithologist (subsp. Scytalopus griseicollis).
 
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Avendaño & Donegan 2015. A distinctive new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis (Aves, Passeriformes, Rhinocryptidae) from the northern Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and Venezuela. ZooKeys 506: 137–153. [article]
Scytalopus griseicollis morenoi Avendaño & Donegan, ssp. n.

Still not acknowledged/listed by either HBW Alive or IOC...
Clements 2015 draft
Scytalopus griseicollis morenoi: Add a recently described subspecies, morenoi, with range "northern Eastern Andes of Colombia (northern Santander and Norte de Santander) and Andes of Venezuela" (Avendaño and Donegan 2015).
 
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Pale-bellied Tapaculo

Avendaño & Donegan 2015. A distinctive new subspecies of Scytalopus griseicollis (Aves, Passeriformes, Rhinocryptidae) from the northern Eastern Cordillera of Colombia and Venezuela. ZooKeys 506: 137–153. [article]
  • Scytalopus griseicollis morenoi Avendaño & Donegan, ssp. n.
...also now IOC World Bird List v5.3 (Draft).
www.worldbirdnames.org/updates/subspecies/
Pale-bellied Tapaculo - Scytalopus griseicollis - Add ssp. n. morenoi. - ADD - Avendaño & Donegan, 2015
 
Maurício et al 2012: Corrigendum

MAURÍCIO, G. N., ARETA, J. I., BORNSCHEIN, M. R. and REIS, R. E. (2012), Morphology-based phylogenetic analysis and classification of the family Rhinocryptidae (Aves: Passeriformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 166: 377–432. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00847.x Abstract
Maurício et al 2012. Zool J Linn Soc 166(2): 377–432. [pdf]

Maurício, Areta, Bornschein & Reis 2015. Corrigendum. Morphology-based phylogenetic analysis and classification of the family Rhinocryptidae (Aves: Passeriformes). Zool J Linn Soc 174(4): 877–878. [pdf]
  • Psilorhamphini trib. nov.
 
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Perijá Tapaculo

Avendaño, Cuervo, López-O, Gutiérrez-Pinto, Cortés-Diago & Cadena 2015. A new species of tapaculo (Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus) from the Serranía de Perijá of Colombia and Venezuela. Auk 132(2): 450–466. [abstract] [pdf]
  • Scytalopus perijanus, sp. nov., Perijá Tapaculo, Tapaculo de Perijá
AOU-SACC Proposal #670 (Avendaño, Mar 2015): Recognize Scytalopus perijanus as a valid species.
Proposal passed, 4 Sep 2015: Recent changes.
 
Maurício, Belmonte-Lopes, Pacheco, Silveira, Whitney & Bornschein 2014. Taxonomy of "Mouse-colored Tapaculos" (II): An endangered new species from the montane Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus). Auk 131(4): 643–659. [abstract]

PS. Scytalopus gonzagai Bahian Mouse-coloured Tapaculo added to HBW Alive (Recently described species and subspecies), 28 Aug 2014.

Giovanni Nachtigall Maurício, Ricardo Belmonte-Lopes, José Fernando Pacheco, Luís Fábio Silveira, Bret M. Whitney, and Marcos Ricardo Bornschein (2015) Erratum: Taxonomy of “Mouse-colored Tapaculos” (II): An endangered new species from the montane Atlantic Forest of southern Bahia, Brazil (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus). The Auk: October 2015, Vol. 132, No. 4, pp. 951-952.

Abstract:
In a recent paper, we described a new bird species, Scytalopus gonzagai, and proposed the English name “Bahian Mouse-colored Tapaculo” for it (Maurício et al. 2014). However, this proposal conflicts with general principles of the formation of English names and, thus, we propose the name “Boa Nova Tapaculo” for S. gonzagai.
 

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