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Richard Klim

Richard Klim

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Penhallurick & Robson 2009. The generic taxonomy of parrotbills (Aves, Timaliidae). Forktail 25: 137-141.

The following genera are proposed:

Group 1:

  • Conostoma: aemodium
  • Hemirhynchus: paradoxus, unicolor
  • Psittiparus: gularis, margaritae, ruficeps, bakeri
  • Paradoxornis: flavirostris, guttaticollis, heudei (including polivanovi)
Group 2:

  • Chleuasicus: atrosuperciliaris
  • Sinosuthora Penhallurick & Robson 2009: brunnea, webbiana, alphonsiana, conspicillata, zappeyi, przewalskii
  • Suthora: fulvifrons, verreauxi, nipalensis, humii, poliotis, ripponi, beaulieui
  • Neosuthora: davidiana
Suthora nipalensis is split as suggested in Robson 2007 (HBW12):
  • S nipalensis Grey-capped Parrotbill (including garhwalensis)
  • S humii Orange-eared Parrotbill (monotypic)
  • S poliotis Grey-breasted Parrotbill (including feae)
  • S ripponi Buff-breasted Parrotbill (including patriciae)
  • S beaulieui Black-eared Parrotbill (including kamoli)
[crocotia is treated as a semi-stable hybrid population between S humii & S poliotis.]
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Richard
 
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Mysticete said:
Do you know what the justification is? To ensure monophyletic genera, and our the names from the old literature?
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RK's digested read ©:
  • Earlier accounts treated parrotbills in multiple genera.
  • Delacour (1946) assigned most taxa to Paradoxornis, in a radical and drastic revision with little justification.
  • Yeung et al (2006) showed that Paradoxornis is paraphyletic, supporting a return to a polygeneric arrangement.
  • This paper uses evidence from morphology & vocalisations to reinforce the desirability of returning to a multiple-genera treatment.
  • Generic names are historic, with the exception of Sinosuthora.
Of related interest, in this paper Penhallurick & Robson don't recognise Paradoxornithidae.
[Robson 2007 (HBW12) did, but noted: "Recent research suggests that the parrotbills may not merit separation at the family level." (Cibois 2003)]

Richard
 
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Microtus said:
Where is Panurus now placed?
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Penhallurick & Robson discount Panurus from consideration as a parrotbill: "However, we exclude the genus Panurus. Molecular evidence demonstrates that Panurus biarmicus has a more distant relationship to other parrotbills than was previously thought, and appears to have a closer relationship to non-babbler species (Ericson and Johansson 2003, Alström et al. 2006, Jønsson and Fjeldså 2006)."

eg, IOC places Panurus in the monotypic family Panuridae: "Bearded Reedling is not related to parrotbills (Paradoxornis), but is sister to the larks (Alaudidae) and in turn to the rest of the Sylvioidea (Ericson and Johansson 2003; Alström et al. 2006; Fuchs et al. 2006)". John Boyd (TiF) has also adopted this treatment.

Richard
 
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Generic name correction

From John Penhallurick on the OrientalBirding mailing list today:

Dear Friends,

Steven Gregory pointed out to me a mistake in the Penhallurick & Robson in the paper in Forktail, 2009.

I changed the names of Paradornis paradoxus Three-toed Parrotbill and P. unicolor Brown Parrotbill to Hemirhynchus Hodgson 1843, in the belief that the latter was a new name for Heteromorpha Hodgson,1843, not Heteromorpha Heubner, 1822 (Lepidoptera); and thus that the type of Hemirhynchus was Heteromorpha unicolor Hodgson, 1843.

Steven kindly pointed out to me that Hemirhynchus was actually a new name for Temnornis Hodgson, 1841, which in turn was a new name for Suthora Hodgson, 1837. I checked out the text of JASB 12, available on http://www.archive.org, and found Steven was correct. Thus the correct generic name for the two above parrotbills is Cholornis J. Verreaux, 1870. And Hemirhynchus belongs in the synonymy of Suthora Hodgson, 1837.

I have sent a correction to Forktail, and also implemented the changes in my website, http://www.worldbirdinfo.net

If anyone cares about the taxonomy of the parrotbills you might like to check it.out.

Dr John Penhallurick
86 Bingley Cres
Fraser A.C.T. 2615
Australia
email: [email protected]
Phone: Home (612) 62585428
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Please visit my website:http://www.worldbirdinfo.net
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Richard
 
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Yunnan Parrotbill

I note that further to the revised taxonomy proposed in Penhallurick & Robson 2009 (post #1), John Penhallurick additionally splits Sinosuthora ricketti Yunnan Parrotbill (monotypic) from S brunnea Brown-winged Parrotbill.

[And a grammatical correction: Sinosuthora zappeyi erlangshanicus to S z erlangshanica.]

www.worldbirdinfo.net

Richard
 
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Richard Klim said:
I note that further to the revised taxonomy proposed in Penhallurick & Robson 2009 (post #1), John Penhallurick has now additionally split Sinosuthora ricketti Yunnan Parrotbill (monotypic) from S brunnea Brown-winged Parrotbill.

[And a grammatical correction: Sinosuthora zappeyi erlangshanicus to S z erlangshanica.]

www.worldbirdinfo.net

Richard
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It seems all Sinosuthora's and Neosuthora are feminine too (S. webbiana, S. alphonsiana etc).
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Same for Sinosuthora, Neosuthora.

Richard
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Richard you are more quick
 
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Crottini, A., A. Galimberti, A. Boto, L. Serra, Y. Liu, C. Yeung, X. Yang, M. Barbuto, M. Casiraghi: Toward a resolution of a taxonomic enigma: first genetic analyses of Paradoxornis webbianus and P. alphonsianus (Aves: Paradoxornithidae) - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Submitted
http://www.zoologie.tu-bs.de/evolution
 
Ashy-throated Parrotbill

Peter Kovalik said:
Crottini, A., A. Galimberti, A. Boto, L. Serra, Y. Liu, C. Yeung, X. Yang, M. Barbuto, M. Casiraghi: Toward a resolution of a taxonomic enigma: first genetic analyses of Paradoxornis webbianus and P. alphonsianus (Aves: Paradoxornithidae) - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Submitted
http://www.zoologie.tu-bs.de/evolution
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So, goodbye Paradoxornis alphonsianus/Sinosuthora alphonsiana...?
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=159112

Richard
 
Three-toed & Brown Parrotbills

Richard Klim said:
Penhallurick & Robson 2009. The generic taxonomy of parrotbills (Aves, Timaliidae). Forktail 25: 137-141.

The following genera are proposed:
  • Hemirhynchus: paradoxus, unicolor
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Penhallurick 2010. A correction to Penhallurick & Robson (2009). Forktail 26: 147-148.

Hemirhynchus should be included in the synonymy of Suthora. That means that the correct generic name should be the oldest available, in this case Cholornis J Verreaux, 1870:

  • Cholornis paradoxa - Three-toed Parrotbill
  • Cholornis unicolor - Brown Parrotbill
Richard

PS. Already reported in post #10:
http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=1842558&postcount=10
 
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Carol K.L. Yeung, Rong-Chien Lin, Fumin Lei, Craig Robson, Le Manh Hung, Wei Liang, Fasheng Zhou, Lingxian Han, Shou-Hsien Li, Xiaojun Yang, 2011. Beyond a morphological paradox: complicated phylogenetic relationships of the parrotbills (Paradoxornithidae, Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, In Press.
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