A new cracticid (Passeriformes: Cracticidae) from the Early Miocene of Australia

Nguyen, Jacqueline M. T.; Worthy, Trevor H.; Boles, Walter; Hand, Suzanne J.; Archer, Michael

doi:10.1071/mu13017

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“…Although the fossil record for birds is relatively poor, particularly for tropical groups, some Corvides fossils are known from Australia (Boles 1999, Nguyen et al 2013, Nguyen 2016 and North America (Brodkorb 1972). These fossils represent the only hard evidence for extinctions of Corvides species and provide little insight into whether particular clades, regions, or times have experienced extraordinary rates of extinction.…”

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Biogeography and Biotic Assembly of Indo-Pacific Corvoid Passerine Birds

Jønsson

Borregaard

Carstensen

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Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.

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The archipelagos that form the transition between Asia and Australia were immortalized by Alfred Russel Wallace's observations on the connections between geography and animal distributions, which he summarized in what became the first major modern biogeographic synthesis. Wallace traveled the island region for eight years, during which he noted the marked faunal discontinuity across what has later become known as Wallace's Line. Wallace was intrigued by the bewildering diversity and distribution of life he discovered. But even today we ask ourselves how species formed within the region and why they are not evenly distributed. Biogeography, phylogeny, dispersal, biotic interactions, and abiotic factors affect the assembly of diversity. On the basis of a decade of research on the ecology, evolution, and systematics of corvoid passerine birds, we summarize what we have learned about the biogeography and assembly of island bird diversity. Corvoid passerine birds include nearly 800 species and 2,300 named taxa and thus represent a large, well-described, and globally distributed clade. Understanding the processes influencing biodiversity in this group is certain to deepen our general understanding of ecology and evolution in the context of biogeography and faunal assembly. 231

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Biogeography and Biotic Assembly of Indo-Pacific Corvoid Passerine Birds

Jønsson

Borregaard

Carstensen

et al. 2017

Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst.

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“…The most pragmatic taxonomic response to this phylogenetic result, and that advocated by Kearns et al (2013), is to recognise Cracticus for the entire clade. That treatment had been adopted previously by some (Storr & Johnstone 1979, Johnstone 2001, Johnstone & Storr 2004, Christidis & Boles 2008, Russell & Rowley 2009 and has since been followed by others (Nguyen et al 2013, Beehler & Pratt 2016. Alternatively, if Gymnorhina is retained for Australian Magpie then the paraphyly of Cracticus can be addressed either by Downloaded From: https://bioone.org/journals/Bulletin-of-the-British-Ornithologists'-Club on 11 Aug 2020 Terms of Use: https://bioone.org/terms-of-use assigning Black Butcherbird to Melloria, or placing it with Australian Magpie in Gymnorhina.…”

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Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club

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“…Tarsus in smallest Black Butcherbird subspecies rufescens >37 mm, thus >12% longer than hooded butcherbird group, including cassicus of similar body weight. In considering tarsal form, it may be significant that quoyi forages more frequently on the ground than other more arboreal 'perch-and-pounce' butcherbirds (Diamond 1972, Peckover & Filewood 1976, Debus 1996, Beehler & Pratt 2016, and that Nguyen et al (2013) noted the lateral shaft of the tarsometatarsus as shallowly concave in these species, but not other Australasian butcherbirds.…”

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“…This paper seeks to answer these questions by freshly appraising the diversity and evolutionary history of the group. In particular, we test assertions in the literature that the distinctive traits of Australian Magpie are predominantly adaptations for terrestrialism (Storr 1952, 1977, Christidis & Boles 2008, Russell & Rowley 2009, Nguyen et al 2013, Beehler & Pratt 2016, and that Black Butcherbird is insufficiently distinctive or divergent from other Cracticus to warrant a separate genus (Russell & Rowley 2009, Beehler & Pratt 2016. We also take the opportunity to correct errors in osteological criteria proposed by Schodde & Mason (1999) and cited by Higgins et al (2006).…”

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“…In choosing to advocate a broad Cracticus, Kearns et al (2013) stressed a view that had been argued earlier: that distinctive traits of Australian Magpie solely comprise an adaptive suite and that Cracticus should be used for the whole group including Australian Magpie (e.g. Storr 1952, 1977, Johnstone & Storr 2004, Christidis & Boles 2008, Russell & Rowley 2009, Kearns et al 2013, Nguyen et al 2013, Beehler & Pratt 2016. Alternatively, it has been argued that when coupled with the bird's complex communal social system, these traits are indicative of a degree of evolutionary distinctiveness that warrants recognition at genus level (Schodde & Mason 1999, Horton et al 2013.…”

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