Western Whistler added to IOC proposed splits

Congratulations Mark and Steve – you just had a species named in honour of your twitchathon team’s win! Western Whistler P. occidentalis added to IOC proposed splits yesterday after WA forms of Golden Whistler outed as a cryptic species in recent paper by Joseph et al (abstract here: http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/z03900p300f.pdf ) following a lot of other work on the whole superspecies complex throughout the region. The big question will be, is this a new WA endemic? – there appears to be records just over the WA-SA border in bird data etc. Martin


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1 comment to Western Whistler added to IOC proposed splits

  • mark.newman

    Strangely enough our name was based on the Western Golden Whistler Sent: Wednesday, 24 December 2014 9:29 AM Congratulations Mark and Steve – you just had a species named in honour of your twitchathon team’s win! Western Whistler P. occidentalis added to IOC proposed splits yesterday after WA forms of Golden Whistler outed as a cryptic species in recent paper by Joseph et al (abstract here: http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/z03900p300f.pdf ) following a lot of other work on the whole superspecies complex throughout the region. The big question will be, is this a new WA endemic? – there appears to be records just over the WA-SA border in bird data etc. Martin — — You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups “birdswa” group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to birdswa+unsubscribe@googlegroups.comunsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.


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