identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
2E3587B5E769FFC97C93A01148F92AC3.text	2E3587B5E769FFC97C93A01148F92AC3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Robsoniinae Sangster & Gaudin & Alström 2025	<div><p>Robsoniinae, new subfamily</p><p>Type genus.— Robsonius Collar, 2006 .</p><p>Diagnosis.—Sameȱ asȱ forȱ theȱ typeȱ genusȱ (Collarȱ 2006).ȱ Thus,ȱ Robsoniinaeȱ differsȱ from all other oscine passerines by a combination of: (i) absence of rictal bristles; (ii) partfeathered nares; (iii) broad white tips to the wing-coverts and outer 2–3 primaries; (iv) very copious, dense, elongate rump feathering; (v) fairly long and slightly hooked bill, as in Turdinus Blyth, 1844; (vi) high-pitched, insect-like main vocalisation; and (vii) habit of walking (Collar 2006: 108).</p><p>In addition, our alignment, using MUSCLE (Edgar 2004) as implemented in MEGA7 (Kumar et al.ȱ 2016),ȱ ofȱ theȱ fifthȱ intronȱ ofȱ theȱ nuclearȱ geneȱ β-fibrinogenȱ (Fib5)ȱ datasetsȱ ofȱ Moyle et al. (2012), Oliveros et al. (2012) and Hosner et al. (2013) obtained from GenBank, shows that there is a 1 bp insertion (corresponding to position 268 of sequence JN 8261411 of R. sorsogonensis) and a 1 bp deletion (corresponding to position 541 of JN826141) that are synapomorphic for Robsonius (and hence Robsoniinae). The alignment used for assessing indelsȱinȱtheȱfifthȱintronȱofȱtheȱnuclearȱgeneȱβ-fibrinogenȱisȱavailableȱatȱZenodoȱ(https://doi. org/10.5281/zenodo.15037864).</p><p>Included taxa.— Robsonius sorsogonensis (Rand &amp; Rabor, 1967), R. rabori (Rand, 1960) and R. thompsoni Hosner, Boggess, Alviola, Sánchez-González, Oliveros, Urriza &amp; Moyle, 2013 .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2E3587B5E769FFC97C93A01148F92AC3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Sangster, George;Gaudin, Jimmy;Alström, Per	Sangster, George, Gaudin, Jimmy, Alström, Per (2025): A new subfamily for Robsonius (Locustellidae). Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 145 (2): 97-100, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v145i2.2025.a1, URL: https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-british-ornithologists-club/volume-145/issue-2/bboc.v145i2.2025.a1/A-new-subfamily-for-Robsonius-Locustellidae/10.25226/bboc.v145i2.2025.a1.full
