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A replacement name for Asthenes wyatti perijanus Phelps 1977

February 1, 2016

A recent near-complete phylogeny of the avian family Furnariidae (Derryberry et al. 2011) found a number of discrepancies between the phylogeny and the then-current taxonomy of the group, and several changes were proposed to reconcile the taxonomy of the family with the phylogeny. Among these was the merging of the genus Schizoeaca Cabanis 1873 into Asthenes Reichenbach 1853 (Derryberry et al. 2010). This change has now been generally adopted. The Committee on Classification and Nomenclature (South America) of the American Ornithologists’ Union (Remsen et al. 2015) passed a proposal to merge the genera in 2010, and recent global reference works (e.g., Dickinson & Christidis 2014) have likewise adopted the lumping of these genera.

Publication Year 2016
Title A replacement name for Asthenes wyatti perijanus Phelps 1977
DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.5.9
Authors R. Terry Chesser
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Zootaxa
Index ID 70164303
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Patuxent Wildlife Research Center