Report from Swedish Taxonomic Committee (1 Viewer)

[Markus Lagerqvist]

BirdLife Sweden’s Taxonomy Committee just published its latest report. Noteworthy decisions are:

White-winged Scoter split into:
• White-winged Scoter (Melanitta deglandi) – amerikansk knölsvärta
• Siberian Scoter (M. stejnegeri) – sibirisk knölsvärta

Barn Owl split into:
• Western Barn Owl (Tyto alba) – tornuggla
• American Barn Owl (T. furcata) – amerikansk tornuggla
• Eastern Barn Owl (T. javanica) – östlig tornuggla

Great Grey Shrike is split into:
• Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) – varfågel
• Great Northern Shrike (L. borealis) – beringvarfågel

Eurasian Magpie is split into:
• Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)
• Maghreb Magpie (P. mauretanica) – maghrebskata
• Asir Magpie (P. asirensis) – asirskata
• Oriental Magpie (P. serica) – orientskata
• Black-rumped Magpie (P. bottanensis) – svartgumpad skata

Scrub Warbler is split into:
• Saharan Scrub Warbler (Scotocerca saharae ) – berbersnårsångare
• Asian Scrub Warbler (S. inquieta) – orientsnårsångare

Siberian Stonechat is split into:
• Siberian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus) – vitgumpad buskskvätta
• Stejneger’s Stonechat (S. stejnegeri) – amurbuskskvätta

Black-eared Wheatear is split into:
• Western Black-eared Wheatear (Oenanthe hispanica) – västlig medelhavsstenskvätta
• Eastern Black-eared Wheatear (O. melanoleuca) – östlig medelhavsstenskvätta

Desert Sparrow is split into:
• Desert Sparrow (Passer simplex) – ökensparv
• Zarudny’s Sparrow (P. zarudnyi) – karakumsparv

Full report here:
http://birdlife.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Tk_Rapport_10_full_version.pdf

 

[Peter Kovalik]

Markus thanks for posting.

 

[Markus Lagerqvist]

BirdLife Sweden’s Taxonomy Committee just published their 2022 report, including the following decisions:

Pacific Swift is split into:
• Pacific Swift (Apus pacificus) – orientseglare
• Salim Ali's Swift (A. salimalii) – tibetseglare
• Blyth's Swift (A. leuconyx) – himalayaseglare
• Cook's Swift (A. cooki) – karstseglare

Lesser Sand Plover is split into:
• Tibetan Sand Plover (Charadrius atrifrons) – tibetpipare
• Siberian Sand Plover (Ch. mongolus) – kamtjatkapipare

Eurasian Scops Owl is split into:
• Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops) – dvärguv
• Cyprus Scops Owl (Otus cyrius) – cyperndvärguv

Spotted Nutcracker is split into:
• Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) – nötkråka
• Kashmir Nutcracker (N. multipunctata) – kashmirnötkråka
• Chinese Nutcracker (N. hemispila) – kinesisk nötkråka

Brown-throated Martin is split into:
• Brown-throated Martin (Riparia paludicola) – brunstrupig backsvala
• Grey-throated Martin (R. chinensis) – orientbacksvala

European Robin is split into:
• European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) – rödhake
• Tenerife Robin (E. superbus) – teneriffarödhake
• Gran Canaria Robon (N. marionae) – grancanariarödhake

Also Ploceus is split into several genera, including Textor for the species occuring in the Western Paleartic.

Full report (in Swedish) can be found here:
BirdLife Sweden

 

[Bismarck Honeyeater]

BirdLife Sweden’s Taxonomy Committee just published their 2022 report, including the following decisions:

Pacific Swift is split into:
• Pacific Swift (Apus pacificus) – orientseglare
• Salim Ali's Swift (A. salimalii) – tibetseglare
• Blyth's Swift (A. leuconyx) – himalayaseglare
• Cook's Swift (A. cooki) – karstseglare

Lesser Sand Plover is split into:
• Tibetan Sand Plover (Charadrius atrifrons) – tibetpipare
• Siberian Sand Plover (Ch. mongolus) – kamtjatkapipare

Eurasian Scops Owl is split into:
• Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops) – dvärguv
• Cyprus Scops Owl (Otus cyrius) – cyperndvärguv

Spotted Nutcracker is split into:
• Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) – nötkråka
• Kashmir Nutcracker (N. multipunctata) – kashmirnötkråka
• Chinese Nutcracker (N. hemispila) – kinesisk nötkråka

Brown-throated Martin is split into:
• Brown-throated Martin (Riparia paludicola) – brunstrupig backsvala
• Grey-throated Martin (R. chinensis) – orientbacksvala

European Robin is split into:
• European Robin (Erithacus rubecula) – rödhake
• Tenerife Robin (E. superbus) – teneriffarödhake
• Gran Canaria Robon (N. marionae) – grancanariarödhake

Also Ploceus is split into several genera, including Textor for the species occuring in the Western Paleartic.

Full report (in Swedish) can be found here:
BirdLife Sweden

Do the BLSTC follow IOC, or do the IOC tend to follow BLSTC, or are they just making their own independent decisions?

 

[Markus Lagerqvist]

Do the BLSTC follow IOC, or do the IOC tend to follow BLSTC, or are they just making their own independent decisions?

Independent decisions for birds that breed the Western Palearctic, for extralimital speces IOC is followed.

 

[Bismarck Honeyeater]

Independent decisions for birds that breed the Western Palearctic, for extralimital speces IOC is followed.

Thanks.
Hopefully indicative of what IOC will do.

 

[jurek]

• Tenerife Robin (E. superbus) – teneriffarödhake
• Gran Canaria Robon (N. marionae) – grancanariarödhake

Amazing how fast is evolution these days. Several papers could not find meaningful differences in robins on Canaries, but they exist now. 5 years ago Gran Canaria had no endemic birds, now it has two.

 

[Mysticete]

Amazing how fast is evolution these days. Several papers could not find meaningful differences in robins on Canaries, but they exist now. 5 years ago Gran Canaria had no endemic birds, now it has two.

It's almost as if different studies can reach different conclusions, based on methods and sample sizes not available to past research groups, and consideration of different sets of evidence!

 

[Markus Lagerqvist]

The Swedish Taxonomic Committe have just published their latest report.
Some of the changes include:

Kentish Plover is split into:

• Kentish Plover (Anarhynchus alexandrinus)
• Hanuman Plover (Anarhynchus seebohmi).

Western and Eastern Catte Egret are moved to the genus Ardea.

Subspecies lusitanius of Yellow-legged Gull accepted for birds along the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula and provisionally also for birds on Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Atlantic coast of Morocco.


Balearic Shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus) is lumped with Yelkouan Shearwater (P. yelkouan).


Mourning Wheatear is split into:

• Mourning Wheatear (Oenanthe lugens)
• “Zagros Wheatear” (Oenanthe persica)

Variable Wheatear is split ino:

• ”Afghan Wheatear” (Oenanthe picata)
• “Karakoram Wheatear” (Oenanthe opistholeuca)
• “Alay Wheatear” (Oenanthe capistrata)

Buff-bellied Pipit is split into

• Japanese Pipit (Anthus japonicus)
• American Pipit (Anthus rubescens)

The full report with all decisions can be found here (in Swedish):
Rapport 14 från Taxonomikommittén

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Western and Eastern Cattle Egret are moved to the genus Ardea.

If IOC follows this review, I will never trust them again

 

[Andy Adcock]

If IOC follows this review, I will never trust them again

Are you a 'nomenclatoriste' or a 'biologiste', what are you qualifications to have this opinion?

 

[Xenospiza]

Mourning Wheatear is split into:

• Mourning Wheatear (Oenanthe lugens)
• “Zagros Wheatear” (Oenanthe persica)

Variable Wheatear is split ino:

• ”Afghan Wheatear” (Oenanthe picata)
• “Karakoram Wheatear” (Oenanthe capistrata)
• “Alay Wheatear” (Oenanthe opistholeuca)

What a weird move. These are very, very closely related taxa.
I assume it is based on the following paper, with the view that any already accepted species must not be made paraphyletic in any way by the paper's sometimes curious findings:

A Phylogenomic Assessment of Processes Underpinning Convergent Evolution in Open-Habitat Chats

Abstract. Insights into the processes underpinning convergent evolution advance our understanding of the contributions of ancestral, introgressed, and novel gen

academic.oup.com

 

[Andy Adcock]

The Swedish Taxonomic Committe have just published their latest report.
Some of the changes include:

Kentish Plover is split into:

• Kentish Plover (Anarhynchus alexandrinus)
• Hanuman Plover (Anarhynchus seebohmi).

I thought that A. a dealbatus was first in line to be split?

 

[Xenospiza]

Are you a 'nomenclatoriste' or a 'biologiste', what are you qualifications to have this opinion?

Here are Jim's papers. How many taxonomic papers have you contributed to?

ORCID

orcid.org

 

[Andy Adcock]

Here are Jim's papers. How many taxonomic papers have you contributed to?

ORCID

orcid.org

I have no idea who he is, how would I know, it was a simple question, if Jim wants to take offence, he's big enough to do it himself.

My question stands as a matter of curiosity, as far as I know, nomenclaturism, is a separate disicipline from genetics?

 

[Markus Lagerqvist]

I thought that A. a dealbatus was first in line to be split?

Yes, dealbatus was split previously, in Report 12, 2022.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Yes, dealbatus was split previously, in Report 12, 2022.

Hadn't realised that was split, thanks.

The last time I spoke with David Bakewell about it, he seemed to think that it was unlikely to be split, at least under BSC.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Amazing how fast is evolution these days. Several papers could not find meaningful differences in robins on Canaries, but they exist now. 5 years ago Gran Canaria had no endemic birds, now it has two.

Collins et al

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Are you a 'nomenclatoriste' or a 'biologiste', what are you qualifications to have this opinion?

Sometimes it's just a matter of common sense, no matter our level of expertise or our job

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Here are Jim's papers. How many taxonomic papers have you contributed to?

ORCID

orcid.org

No battle please, but I think that there are decisions that are taken too quickly under the pretext of (monophyly for example), like "à la one again bistoufly".