Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of African spurfowls Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Coturnicini:Pternistisspp
| Autor: | Rauri C. K. Bowie, Robin M. Little, Timothy M. Crowe, Tshifhiwa G. Mandiwana-Neudani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Ostrich. 90:145-172 |
| ISSN: | 1727-947X 0030-6525 |
| DOI: | 10.2989/00306525.2019.1584925 |
| Popis: | Afro-Asiatic perdicine galliform birds, commonly and inconsistently referred to as francolins, spurfowls and partridges, have contentious taxonomic and phylogenetic histories. In a widely followed monograph, Hall combined two putative monophyletic, but taxonomically unnamed, clades comprising 28 perdicine species known as ‘francolins’ or fisante in South Africa and 13 additional quail-like species (partridges or patryse) into a single genus, Francolinus, which was the largest genus within the Galliformes. Furthermore, she partitioned fisante + patryse into eight, also formally unnamed, putative monophyletic ‘Groups’ and speculated on the phylogenetic affinities of four ‘Unplaced’ species. We investigate fisante using combined morphological, vocalisation and DNA-based evidence and produce a comprehensive revision of fisante taxonomy and phylogeny, a stable classification system and common terminology, and hypotheses vis-a-vis eco-biogeographical processes that promoted their speciation and cladogenesis. Th... |
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