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Titre :	Clarifying taxonomic, distributional and genetic information relating to subspecies of the Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti and the Yellow-necked Spurfowl P. leucoscepus (2019)
Auteurs :	Timothy M. Crowe, Auteur ; Robin M. Little, Auteur ; Donald A. Turner, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Ostrich (90(3) September, 2019)
Article en page(s) :	279-280
Mots-clés:	Pternistis ; Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of African spurfowls Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Coturnicini: Pternistis spp. ; biogeography ; gamebird ; spurfowl ; taxonomy
Résumé :	We provide suggested errata vis-à-vis Mandiwana-Neudani TG, Little RM, Crowe TM, Bowie RCK. 2019. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of African spurfowls Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Coturnicini: Pternistis spp. Ostrich 90(2): 145–172. Firstly, the name fischeri was incorrectly applied to the southern subspecies of P. hildebrandti. The correct name is johnstoni. This taxon is 3.2% (not 0.5%) genetically divergent from P. h. hildebrandti. Secondly, contra Hall [Hall BP. 1963. The francolins, a study in speciation. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 10: 105–204], P. leucoscepus is not distributed continuously from Eritrea to Tanzania. The northern, nominate subspecies P. l. leucoscepus appears to be confined to Eritrea and north-eastern Ethiopia.
En ligne :	https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2019.1660431

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