Mysticete
Well-known member
Seems like it might make more sense to have one thread to cover updates to the site, rather than scatter them everywhere, or have to create new threads for groups without existing ones.
Anyway, the most recent one:
Loons:There's only one relevant work on Loons, Sprengelmeyer's (2014) MA thesis.He provided a complete phylogeny, and also found that the split between theRed-throated Loon and the others occurred over 20 million years agbviously, subfamilies are needed. I've moved the Red-throated Loon to genus Eudytes (Illiger, 1811) and subfamily Eudytinae.
[Gaviidae, Aequornithes I, 3.07]
Sort of feels like TiF is heavily going into reorganizing birds and using molecular clock data to separate out genera and higher ranks. Not sure I entirely agree that the differences within loons (or for that matter darters) necessarily warrants subfamily recognition. On the other hand it seems a more rational use of this data than some have argued.
Anyway, the most recent one:
July 25
Loons:There's only one relevant work on Loons, Sprengelmeyer's (2014) MA thesis.He provided a complete phylogeny, and also found that the split between theRed-throated Loon and the others occurred over 20 million years agbviously, subfamilies are needed. I've moved the Red-throated Loon to genus Eudytes (Illiger, 1811) and subfamily Eudytinae.
[Gaviidae, Aequornithes I, 3.07]
Sort of feels like TiF is heavily going into reorganizing birds and using molecular clock data to separate out genera and higher ranks. Not sure I entirely agree that the differences within loons (or for that matter darters) necessarily warrants subfamily recognition. On the other hand it seems a more rational use of this data than some have argued.