Morphological evidence for the taxonomic status of the bridge’s guan, penelope bridgesi, with comments on the validity of P. Obscura bronzina (Aves: Cracidae)

Oscar Diego Evangelista-Vargas; Luís Fábio Silveira

doi:10.3897/zoologia.35.e12993

Morphological evidence for the taxonomic status of the bridge’s guan, penelope bridgesi, with comments on the validity of P. Obscura bronzina (Aves: Cracidae)

Oscar Diego Evangelista-Vargas, Luís Fábio Silveira

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Penelope obscura Temminck, 1815 is a forest guan found in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia. Three subspecies are currently recognized: Penelope o. obscura Temminck, 1815, P. o. bridgesi Gray, 1860, and P. o. bronzina Hellmayr, 1914. The limits between Penelope taxa are poorly understood since few studies have evaluated their differences in plumage, distribution and taxonomy. Based on 104 specimens deposited in ornithological collections we studied the variations in the plumage of P. obscura, including all characters that have been used to describe the included subspecies. Our results show that the plumage of these birds is extremely variable in southern and southeastern Brazil. Without any morphological and morphometric characters to support P. o. bronzina as a valid taxon, we synonymized it with P. obscura. Conversely, P. o. bridgesi, which occurs in the Yungas and the Chaco, is a distinct taxon and should be treated as a separate species from P. obscura.

Original language	English
Article number	e12993
Journal	Zoologia
Volume	35
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.35.e12993
State	Published - 2018

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvi-mento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento do Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) for the grants received and for the financial support; Idea Wild for the equipment donated to DEV; the photographers who posted the photos in EcoRegistros and WikiAves websites. The curators and staff of the following institutions kindly welcomed us and allowed us to study the specimens under their care: MFN and ZSM (Germany); FMNH (USA); RNHL (Netherlands); BMNH (UK); MACN (Argentina); MNRJ, MHNCI and MCNRS (Brazil). We also thank Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Bio-diversidade (ICMBio/SISBIO) for issuing collecting permits. LFS is supported by a CNPq research productivity fellowship. George Sangster kindly reviewed the manuscript and offered important contributions to this text.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Pensoft Publishers. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Distribution
Morphology
Penelope
Taxonomy

Access to Document

10.3897/zoologia.35.e12993

Cite this

@article{e3bdc03ba8ea4495b3d115964fcac9f4,

title = "Morphological evidence for the taxonomic status of the bridge{\textquoteright}s guan, penelope bridgesi, with comments on the validity of P. Obscura bronzina (Aves: Cracidae)",

abstract = "Penelope obscura Temminck, 1815 is a forest guan found in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia. Three subspecies are currently recognized: Penelope o. obscura Temminck, 1815, P. o. bridgesi Gray, 1860, and P. o. bronzina Hellmayr, 1914. The limits between Penelope taxa are poorly understood since few studies have evaluated their differences in plumage, distribution and taxonomy. Based on 104 specimens deposited in ornithological collections we studied the variations in the plumage of P. obscura, including all characters that have been used to describe the included subspecies. Our results show that the plumage of these birds is extremely variable in southern and southeastern Brazil. Without any morphological and morphometric characters to support P. o. bronzina as a valid taxon, we synonymized it with P. obscura. Conversely, P. o. bridgesi, which occurs in the Yungas and the Chaco, is a distinct taxon and should be treated as a separate species from P. obscura.",

keywords = "Distribution, Morphology, Penelope, Taxonomy",

author = "Evangelista-Vargas, {Oscar Diego} and Silveira, {Lu{\'i}s F{\'a}bio}",

year = "2018",

doi = "10.3897/zoologia.35.e12993",

language = "Ingl{\'e}s",

volume = "35",

journal = "Zoologia",

issn = "1984-4670",

publisher = "Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Morphological evidence for the taxonomic status of the bridge’s guan, penelope bridgesi, with comments on the validity of P. Obscura bronzina (Aves: Cracidae)

AU - Evangelista-Vargas, Oscar Diego

AU - Silveira, Luís Fábio

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Penelope obscura Temminck, 1815 is a forest guan found in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia. Three subspecies are currently recognized: Penelope o. obscura Temminck, 1815, P. o. bridgesi Gray, 1860, and P. o. bronzina Hellmayr, 1914. The limits between Penelope taxa are poorly understood since few studies have evaluated their differences in plumage, distribution and taxonomy. Based on 104 specimens deposited in ornithological collections we studied the variations in the plumage of P. obscura, including all characters that have been used to describe the included subspecies. Our results show that the plumage of these birds is extremely variable in southern and southeastern Brazil. Without any morphological and morphometric characters to support P. o. bronzina as a valid taxon, we synonymized it with P. obscura. Conversely, P. o. bridgesi, which occurs in the Yungas and the Chaco, is a distinct taxon and should be treated as a separate species from P. obscura.

AB - Penelope obscura Temminck, 1815 is a forest guan found in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia. Three subspecies are currently recognized: Penelope o. obscura Temminck, 1815, P. o. bridgesi Gray, 1860, and P. o. bronzina Hellmayr, 1914. The limits between Penelope taxa are poorly understood since few studies have evaluated their differences in plumage, distribution and taxonomy. Based on 104 specimens deposited in ornithological collections we studied the variations in the plumage of P. obscura, including all characters that have been used to describe the included subspecies. Our results show that the plumage of these birds is extremely variable in southern and southeastern Brazil. Without any morphological and morphometric characters to support P. o. bronzina as a valid taxon, we synonymized it with P. obscura. Conversely, P. o. bridgesi, which occurs in the Yungas and the Chaco, is a distinct taxon and should be treated as a separate species from P. obscura.

KW - Distribution

KW - Morphology

KW - Penelope

KW - Taxonomy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047807812&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3897/zoologia.35.e12993

DO - 10.3897/zoologia.35.e12993

M3 - Artículo

AN - SCOPUS:85047807812

SN - 1984-4670

VL - 35

JO - Zoologia

JF - Zoologia

M1 - e12993

ER -

Morphological evidence for the taxonomic status of the bridge’s guan, penelope bridgesi, with comments on the validity of P. Obscura bronzina (Aves: Cracidae)

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this