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Issue: Vol. 4294 No. 4: 20 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.4.3
Page range: 436–442
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 1

Penelope superciliaris pseudonyma Neumann, 1933 (Aves, Cracidae) is the valid name for the blue-faced population of Rusty-margined Guan endemic to the Madeira-Tapajós interfluvium of central Amazonian Brazil

Seção de Aves, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), Av. Nazaré 481, Ipiranga, CEP 04218-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemática, Taxonomia Animal e Biodiversidade, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Seção de Aves, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), Av. Nazaré 481, Ipiranga, CEP 04218-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Seção de Aves, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), Av. Nazaré 481, Ipiranga, CEP 04218-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Departamento de Zoologia do Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos – CBRO.
Seção de Aves, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MZUSP), Av. Nazaré 481, Ipiranga, CEP 04218-970, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Comitê Brasileiro de Registros Ornitológicos – CBRO.
Aves Cracidae taxonomy Penelope superciliares cyanosparius synonym

Abstract

As a part of a taxonomic study of the Penelope superciliaris complex, we noticed that two names are available for the population which occurs on the left margin of the Tapajós River, in Amazonian Brazil, which, in life, possesses a bright-blue face. The type locality of Penelope superciliares [sic] cyanosparius Nardelli, 1993, described by Nardelli (1993) based on living specimens, is not far from the type locality of P. s. pseudonyma Neumann, 1933. We collected new specimens across this region and, after a reexamination of the material used by Neumann (1933) to describe P. s. pseudonyma, we conclude that Penelope superciliaris pseudonyma is the oldest available name for the blue-faced guans restricted to the Madeira-Tapajós interfluvium, and P. superciliares [sic] cyanosparius Nardelli, 1993 must be treated as a junior synonym.

 

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