Saudareos, Joseph, Merwin, and Smith, 2020
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Saudareos View in CoL are smaller bodied, largely green lorikeets with long, attenuated tails. They are phenotypically disparate, perhaps reflecting evolutionary reshuffling of a number of plesiomorphic traits among them, e.g., distinctive ear-coverts, well-demarcated chest and belly plumage with narrow, dark terminal barring. This combined with their similarity to either the brightly colored ( Trichoglossus haematodus View in CoL ) or mostly green Trichoglossus View in CoL ( T. euteles View in CoL ) caused confusion in premolecular classification. The taxonomic uncertainty extended beyond Trichoglossus View in CoL . Saudareos iris View in CoL was previously placed in Psitteuteles View in CoL , which is now considered a paraphyletic assemblage of small lorikeets ( Smith et al., 2020). Support for the Saudareos View in CoL and Eos View in CoL sister relationship varied across phylogenomic studies, which come from the same dataset but the sequence alignments varied slightly (phylogenomic tree presented here UFBS = 73%; subspecies tree from Smith et al., 2020, UFBS = 100%). The most northerly distributed lorikeet, S. johnstoniae View in CoL , occurs in the mountains of Mindanao in the southern Philippines and diverged from other members of the genus 4.5 Mya (1.2–7.3; fig. 14). The following nodes reflect the divergence among and potentially within Indonesian archipelagos. Saudareos iris View in CoL of Timor and Wetar Islands, Lesser Sundas, diverged from S. flavoviridis View in CoL and S. ornata View in CoL 3.9 Mya (1–6.9; fig. 14). Saudareos flavoviridis View in CoL and S. ornata View in CoL shared a common ancestor 3.4 Mya (0.8–6.3) and both occur on Sulawesi and neighboring islands. The species currently exhibit partial elevational segregation on Sulawesi, which may have contributed to the initial isolation. We note that in our earlier study ( Joseph et al., 2020) Saudareos flavoviridis meyeri was closer to S. ornata View in CoL than to other S. flavoviridis View in CoL . Although we have not sampled to this extent in this study, we acknowledge the elevation of meyeri View in CoL to species rank elsewhere (del Hoyo and Collar, 2014; Gill et al., 2023).
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Saudareos
Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo 2024 |
Saudareos
Joseph, Merwin, and Smith 2020 |
Saudareos
Joseph, Merwin, and Smith 2020 |
Psitteuteles
Bonaparte 1854 |
Eos
Wagler 1832 |