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Issue: Vol. 3869 No. 3: 1 Oct. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-10-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3869.3.8
Page range: 343–347
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 2

Correcting the “correct” name for the Asian Brown Flycatcher (Aves: Passeriformes, Muscicapidae, Muscicapa)

Flat 3, Bolsover Court, 19 Bolsover Road, Eastbourne, BN20 7JG, U.K.
Australian Biological Resources Study, G.P.O. Box 787, Canberra City, ACT, Australia 2601.
Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P. O. Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.
CNRS-UMR5175 CEFE, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, 1919, route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France.
c/o Lynx Edicions, Montseny 8, E-08193 Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain.
Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois IL 60605, USA.
Aves Passeriformes Muscicapidae Muscicapa

Abstract

Mlíkovský (2012) claimed that Muscicapa latirostris Raffles, 1822 was the correct name for the Asian Brown Flycatcher, and rejected its senior synonym, Muscicapa dauurica Pallas, 1811. Muscicapa dauurica is in equal or greater use today for this flycatcher, to which the references to it in Mlíkovský (2012) testify even though they are far from comprehensive. Other major references using dauurica Pallas are Sibley & Monroe (1990), Inskipp et al. (1996), Kennedy et al. (2000), Dickinson (2003), Rasmussen & Anderton (2005), Clement (2006), Wells (2007) and Mann (2008).