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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3440762" data-attributes="member: 24811">The authors there clearly treat Lanyu (= Orchid island / Botel Tobago) as the type locality of totogo. And indeed they found the population from this island to be distinct from the breeding population of Taiwan, and close to that of Japan.But if Mark's pdf is the OD, things may be somewhat messy. There, in a footnote, Momiyama referred to an earlier publication of the name, with Lanyu as type locality, but which was a nomen nudum. Meanwhile, in the main text (this is where the name was made available), he clearly said that the name applies to Taiwanese breeding birds. Given that no type specimen or type series seems to be designated, the type locality should in principle, at the very least, encompass both islands...</blockquote>