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    jts1882 replied to the thread How to describe a new species in zoology.
    The botanical diagnoses are equally baffling in English or Latin.
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Anatidae.
    On the phylogeny and taxonomy lull, we have had an important paper on avian phylogeny this year. As someone who looks down the...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread AOU-NACC Proposals 2024.
    Which would probably rule out Kalinago wren.
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Howard and Moore Checklist G. O. A. T.?.
    Somethings up. The updated families from Struthionidae to Apodidae are no longer available. They link to the old H&M4.1 version. But I...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Taxonomy in-flux updates.
    He's redefined Columbea as Kuhl's Lower Landbird clade (i.e. Gruimorphae, Strisores, Columbaves). Comparing the two trees there are...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Phylogeny of birds.
    They describe the composition and reason for name.
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Phylogeny of birds.
    Fig 2 needs that "Passeriformes (see Extended Data Fig. 2)" terminal changed to Fig 3. I note in Fig 3 you have Tichodroma in Sittidae...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Phylogeny of birds.
    The Extended Data Fig 3 has the Passeriformes families labelled and has a timescale.
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Phylogeny of birds.
    The links are not working for me. This seems a report on two papers, but the links to the Nature and PNAS papers are not working there...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Latest IOC Diary Updates.
    The page embeds a portion of a Googlesheets spreadsheet using an iframe. You'd have to edit the googlesheets file to narrow the column...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Latest IOC Diary Updates.
    The first few BOW pages, ratites through turacos use the full page width. The pages from pigeon on have the narrow width. This has been...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Latest IOC Diary Updates.
    I suspect it's only recently that people make a firm distinction between Mac and Mc. Before people had a need to use their surname...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Time calibration and Linnean ranks in birds.
    Those families and Pipromorphidae are recognised in H&M4. I'm guessing that this might have been an older arrangement and the other...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Accipitridae.
    As for intent, they refer to there being 14 subfamilies in the abstract and introduction and then list Melieraxinae as one of the 14...
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    jts1882 replied to the thread Accipitridae.
    In the preview they assign Melierax, Micronisus, and Urotriorchis to subfamily Melieraxinae, with the spelling used by Lerner and...
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