Archive for September 23, 2011

Pinniped Taxonomy Revised

September 23, 2011

Of interest to viewers of this blog,  Annalisa Berta and I have recently published a taxonomic revision of this group

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2907.2011.00193.x/abstract

A more detailed dissection of changes is presented in this blog post

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2247796#post2247796

no new splits at species level, but quite a few lumps at subspecies level (and a few at species level)


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