Nesospiza (1 Viewer)

[Richard Klim]

Rensburg, Bloomer, Ryan & Hansson (in press). Ancestral polymorphism at the major histocompatibility complex (MHCIIβ) in the Nesospiza bunting species complex and its sister species (Rowettia goughensis). BMC Evol Biol 12(143). [pdf]

 

[Richard Klim]

Ryan et al

Ryan, Klicka, Barker & Burns (in press). The origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, central South Atlantic Ocean. Mol Phylogenet Evol. [abstract]

 

[Richard Klim]

TiF

Ryan, Klicka, Barker & Burns (in press). The origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, central South Atlantic Ocean. Mol Phylogenet Evol. [abstract]

John Boyd (TiF):
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/changes.html (7 Jun 2013)
www.jboyd.net/Taxo/List32.html#thraupidae

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Ryan et al

Ryan, Klicka, Barker & Burns (in press). The origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, central South Atlantic Ocean. Mol Phylogenet Evol. [abstract]

What justifies to keep Nesospiza and Rowettia as different genera of Melanodera? I would put everything in one genus

 

[Acanthis]

What justifies to keep Nesospiza and Rowettia as different genera of Melanodera? I would put everything in one genus

Another good question is how on Earth did those little Melanodera tanagers colonise such far-flung islands not once, but actually twice?
I doubt very much that either current mainland species could repeat that feat.

 

[Jim LeNomenclatoriste]

Another good question is how on Earth did those little Melanodera tanagers colonise such far-flung islands not once, but actually twice?
I doubt very much that either current mainland species could repeat that feat.

That's not me who's going to answer you lol