Charadriformes changes (1 Viewer)

[Snapdragyn]

Charadriiformes changes

Another interesting article. Supports some of the other recent work on this group, with some scattered fun tidbits. Although they don't make taxonomic suggestions, it does look like the Scolopacid subfamilies may need some revision:

Baker et. al. (2007)

 

[tomjenner]

The AOU has only recently made some major changes to the Scolopacids, but it seems that more may be on the horizon. However, the authors stressed the fact that more data is needed before any taxonomic changes are made. Inreresting to see that they don't seem to think the seedsnipes (see correction below) are Charadriformes at all. There are a few other interesting anomalies as well.

Tom

 

[Xenospiza]

They place the seedsnipes (+ plains-wanderer) well inside the Charadriiformes (as sister of the Jacana–Painted-snipe clade) – did you mean something else?

 

[tomjenner]

They place the seedsnipes (+ plains-wanderer) well inside the Charadriiformes (as sister of the Jacana–Painted-snipe clade) – did you mean something else?

Thanks; you are absolutely correct. When I looked again I saw that they were saying the Sandgrouse are not shorebirds and I think I must have somehow missread it as seedsnipes. I didn't know that anyone ever did think that sandgrouse could be shorebirds, which is probably why I misread it.

Tom

 

[Xenospiza]

I think Sibley and Monroe put Sandgrouse there – no one ever followed!