| rapid diversification and secondary sympatry in australo-pacific kingfishers (aves: alcedinidae: todiramphus). | todiramphus chloris is the most widely distributed of the pacific's 'great speciators'. its 50 subspecies constitute a species complex that is distributed over 16 000 km from the red sea to polynesia. we present, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of this enigmatic radiation of kingfishers. ten pacific todiramphus species are embedded within the t. chloris complex, rendering it paraphyletic. among these is a radiation of five species from the remote islands of eastern ... | 2015 | 26064600 |
| quill mites of the family syringophilidae (acariformes: prostigmata) parasitizing coraciiform birds (aves: coraciiformes). | three new species of the family syringophilidae associated with birds of the pantropically distributed order coraciiformes are described: two new species of the subfamily picobiinae-rafapicobia momoti sp. nov. ex the rufous-capped motmot baryphthengus ruficapillus (vieillot) (momotidae) from brazil, rafapicobia brachypteraci sp. nov. ex the rufous-headed ground-roller atelornis crossleyi sharpe (brachypteraciidae) from madagascar, and one new species of the subfamily syringophilinae-peristerophi ... | 2020 | 33056639 |
| molecular identification of todiramphus chloris subspecies on the arabian peninsula using three mitochondrial barcoding genes and issr markers. | the collared kingfisher (todiramphus chloris) is widely distributed across the indian and western pacific oceans and consists of about 50 subspecies. two different subspecies of t. chloris occur in the arabian peninsula: t. c. abyssinicus from the red sea coast and t. c. kalbaensis from the arabian sea coast in the united arab emirates and oman. the aim of this study was to determine the molecular relationship between the two arabian subspecies and to establish the first dna barcodes from the ar ... | 2020 | 31889874 |