Mitochondrial-DNA evidence shows the Australian Painted Snipe is a full species, Rostratula australis
| Autor: | Danny I. Rogers, Rebecca Elbourne, Sergio L. Pereira, Allan J. Baker, Chris J. Hassell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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0106 biological sciences
biology Ecology Rostratula Rostratula australis Greater painted snipe Zoology Subspecies biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 010605 ornithology Painted-snipe Plumage Animal Science and Zoology Taxonomy (biology) Ornithology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Nature and Landscape Conservation |
| Zdroj: | Emu - Austral Ornithology. 107:185-189 |
| ISSN: | 1448-5540 0158-4197 |
| DOI: | 10.1071/mu07024 |
| Popis: | Despite its distinctive morphology, the taxonomy of the Australian Painted Snipe has been unsettled, with some authors treating it as a full species, Rostratula australis (Gould 1838), and others treating it as a subspecies of the Greater Painted Snipe, Rostratula benghalensis. We sequenced the DNA of five mitochondrial genes (Cyt b, ND5, ATP 6–8, COIII and COI) of Australian Painted Snipe, Greater Painted Snipe and South American Painted Snipe, Nycticryphes semicollaris. The sequences of Australian Painted Snipe were 10% different from those of Greater Painted Snipe from Africa and South-east Asia, which differed from one another by only 2%. Plumage and anatomical characters can also distinguish the Australian and the Greater Painted Snipes. Our results clearly indicate that the Australian Painted Snipe is a distinct species that diverged ~19 million years ago (mya) (95% credible interval 13.0, 27.4 mya). |
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