MAKING FULL USE OF THE LIST AS PRESENTED Below are some selected, cut‐down and non‐consecutive portions of the list:
ANATIDAE ‐ DUCKS, GEESE, SWANS (53:159)1 ANATINAE – TRIBE: ANATINI PTERNISTIS Wagler, 1832 M – Tetrao capensis J.F. Gmelin, 1788; type by subsequent designation (G.R. Gray, 1841, A List of the Genera of Birds, ed. 2, p. 79). = Tetrao afer Statius Muller, 1776 2 Columba torringtoniae (Blyth & Kelaart, 1853) SRI LANKA PIGEON3 α δ
Sri Lanka [186]
†Ectopistes migratorius (Linnaeus, 1766) PASSENGER PIGEON v C and E North America >> S and SE USA to NE Mexico Patagioenas fasciata BAND‐TAILED PIGEON4 1 monilis (Vigors, 1839)5 1 fasciata (Say, 1822)6,7 α 1 vioscae (Brewster, 1888) 2 crissalis (Salvadori, 1893) 2 albilinea (Bonaparte, 1854)8 2 roraimae (Chapman, 1929)
v Mountains of SW British Columbia to W Nevada and S California [2649] v Mountains of SW USA (SC Utah and NC Colorado) to N Nicaragua NW Mexico (Sierra de San Lázaro in S Baja California) v Mountains of Costa Rica and W Panama (Chiriquí, Veraguas) Santa Marta Mts.; Coastal Range of Venezuela; Trinidad; Andes from Venezuela to NW Argentina Tepuis of S and SE Venezuela
GENUS INCERTAE SEDIS Gallirallus calayanensis Allen, Oliveros, Española, Broad & Gonzalez, 2004 CALAYAN RAIL v Calayan (Babuyan Is.) [28]
Composition and sequence of subfamiles, tribes and genera largely derived from Gonzalez et al. (2009) [931]. See also Bulgarella et al. (2010) [320] and Fulton et al. (2012) [863]. Includes ovambensis, bradfieldi and crypticus Stresemann, 1939 [2474]; see R.M. Little in Hockey et al. (2005) [1112]. 3 Original spelling torringtoniae. Previously correctly emended based on internal information see Pittie & Dickinson (2006) [1974]. 4 The albilinea group was formerly treated as a separate species but see Hellmayr & Conover (1942) [1087]. 5 For continued recognition see Gibson & Kessel (1997) [903]. 6 Includes letonai; see Monroe (1968) [1683]. Includes parva; see Brodkorb (1943) [268] but see also Monroe (1968) [1683]. 7 For date correction see Woodman (2010) [2822]. 8 Includes tucumana; see Hellmayr & Conover (1942) [1087]. 1 2
The selected elements above allow a fairly full explanation of the presentation of the list. Each family name in scientific form is followed by the English group name or a number of group names that figure in the family. The figures in parentheses, in the example above, reports that the family contains 159 species divided into 53 genera. A footnote attached to the family usually provides references to the authorities for taxon composition; if not subdivided then a family footnote will be concerned with the linear sequence of genera (which may be only partly resolved, such that there are genera that need to be distinguished from their better understood fellows, giving a first necessary reason to use the term Incertae Sedis: see below). We employ sub‐family and tribe names only where agreed with Joel Cracraft seeking to use both terms at broadly equivalent ranks as their names imply, and only when sufficiently justified by broad taxon‐sampling; thus some tribe names that might be expected are not used. When we do use them, footnotes there may have similar content to that given elsewhere at family level. The generic name (in italic capitals) is provided with author and date. Following this is one of three letters M, F or N. These indicate the gender (masculine, feminine or neuter) of the generic name. For more information on the importance and significance of the gender see Appendix 4. Following the gender, in this edition, for the first time is listed the type species and the method by which the type has been selected. If the selection is by subsequent designation or subsequent monotypy (see I.C.Z.N. 1999 for definitions) the work in which the selection was made is cited. If the type species is now considered to be a junior synonym or otherwise invalid (e.g. due to homonymy), the senior equivalent is listed last, preceded by an equals sign.
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