Taxonomy of Melithreptus honeyeaters

[Chris Charles <>]

Sand-groped Honeyeater
.....to reflect the no doubt exurberance the West will embrace a new  
endemic.
Chris Charles

33deg 47'30"S
151deg10'09"E





On 09/07/2010, at 6:21 PM, Michael Ramsey wrote:

> 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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