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Issue: Vol. 4420 No. 3: 17 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.3.10
Page range: 445–450
Abstract views: 77
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Taxonomic Status of the Streaked Saltator, Saltator striatipectus (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), from Puná Island, Ecuador

Comité Ecuatoriano de Registros Ornitológicos, Pasaje El Moro E4-216 y Norberto Salazar, Tumbaco, Ecuador
Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, and Extensión Galápagos (GAIAS), Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Av. Diego de Robles y Pampite, Cumbayá, Ecuador Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Machala y Sabanilla, Quito, Ecuador
Nature Experience. Pasaje Stubel N27-80 y Rafael León Larrea, edificio El Valle, dpto 2B. Quito, Ecuador
Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Machala y Sabanilla, Quito, Ecuador
Compañía ASAMBLA. Avenida 9 de Octubre 2009. Guayaquil, Ecuador
Nature Experience. Pasaje Stubel N27-80 y Rafael León Larrea, edificio El Valle, dpto 2B. Quito, Ecuador
Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, and Extensión Galápagos (GAIAS), Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Av. Diego de Robles y Pampite, Cumbayá, Ecuador
Aves Passeriformes Thraupidae

Abstract

The Streaked Saltator, Saltator striatipectus, is an uncommon to common resident of open areas, cultivated land, gardens, and forest edges, with ten subspecies recognized from west Costa Rica through west Peru (Brewer 2016). Patterns of plumage variation, especially mantle color and streaking pattern below, are complex across subspecies and age classes (Chapman 1926; Ridgely & Tudor 2009; Brewer 2016). Until recently, S. striatipectus was considered conspecific with the Lesser Antillean Saltator S. albicollis, but separated on the basis of genetic differentiation despite overall plumage similarities (Seutin et al. 1993). Actually, S. striatipectus and S. albicollis are not each other’s closest relatives (Chaves et al. 2013).

 

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