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Taxonomy of Melithreptus honeyeaters

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Subject: Taxonomy of Melithreptus honeyeaters
From: Michael Ramsey <>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 18:21:55 +1000
Any suggestions or proposed common name?
Western White-naped Honeyeater seems a bit long.
Whitlock's Honeyeater sounds good, or Western Honeyeater perhaps.

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> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 21:39:07 +1000
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Taxonomy of Melithreptus honeyeaters
>
> For anyone interested in such things, a paper has just been published which 
> advocates splitting the White naped Honeyeater into two - the South West WA 
> form becoming Melithreptus whitlocki.
>
> This is no particular surprise; Christidis and Boles flagged the possibility 
> and the latest Slater field guide has it as a separate species already.  The 
> paper advocates that treatment on the basis that genetically the two forms 
> currently in White naped are in fact each more closely related to Black 
> headed Honeyeater than they are to each other.  While I have not read the 
> entire paper, I don't think it says anything that would particularly support 
> splitting Golden backed from Black chinned.
>
> The citation of the paper is Toon, Hughes & Joseph 2010. Multilocus analysis 
> of honeyeaters (Aves: Meliphagidae) highlights spatio-temporal heterogeneity 
> in the influence of biogeographic barriers in the Australian monsoonal zone. 
> Mol Ecol: in press.  The abstract can be found at 
> http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123571854/abstract
>
> It also makes reference to an in press paper supporting the splitting of the 
> Western Ground Parrot.
>
> Murray Lord
> Sydney
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