Eremiornis carteri Or Not

Per Alstrom has a very organised website, with his pdfs:

http://www.slu.se/per-alstrom-research

This paper includes Spinifexbird in a genetic aalysis with other Locustellidae:

Alström, P., Fregin, S., Norman, J.A., Ericson, P.G.P., Christidis, L. & Olsson, U. 2011. Multilocus analysis of a taxonomically densely sampled dataset reveal extensive non-monophyly in the avian family Locustellidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 513–526. DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.012

AbstractThe phylogeny of most of the species in the avian passerine family Locustellidae is inferred using a Bayesian species tree approach (Bayesian Estimation of Species Trees, BEST), as well as a traditional Bayesian gene tree method (MrBayes), based on a dataset comprising one mitochondrial and four nuclear loci. The trees inferred by the different methods agree fairly well in topology, although in a few cases there are marked differences. Some of these discrepancies might be due to convergence problems for BEST (despite up to 1 × 109 iterations). The phylogeny strongly disagrees with the current taxonomy at the generic level, and we propose a revised classification that recognizes four instead of seven genera. These results emphasize the well known but still often neglected problem of basing classifications on non-cladistic evaluations of morphological characters. An analysis of an extended mitochondrial dataset with multiple individuals from most species, including many subspecies, suggest that several taxa presently treated as subspecies or as monotypic species as well as a few taxa recognized as separate species are in need of further taxonomic work. PDF:

http://www.nrm.se/download/18.42129f1312d951207af800049217/Alstr%C3%B6m+et+al+Locustellidae+MPEV+2011.pdf

Colin

Eremiornis carteri Or Not

from [Nikolas Haass] [Permanent Link][Original]

To:

Stephen Ambrose , ‘birding-aus threads’

Subject:

Eremiornis carteri Or Not

From:

Nikolas Haass

Date:

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:55:48 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Stephen,

All I can find is “TAX : Spinifexbird is a member of Megalurus [Locustellidae, previously Megaluridae] (Christidis & Boles 2008; Alström et al 2011a)” on the IOC website http://www.worldbirdnames.org/n-warblers%20ow.html

Nikolas

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