A new subspecies of Tesia olivea (Sylviidae) from Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand |
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| Authors: | Swen C Renner John H Rappole Pamela C Rasmussen Thein Aung Myint Aung Nay Myo Shwe John P Dumbacher and Robert C Fleischer |
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| Institution: | (1) Conservation and Research Center, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA;(2) Department of Zoology, Michigan State University Museum, West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA;(3) Department of Forestry, Nature and Wildlife Conservation Division, West Gyogone Insein Yangon, Union of Myanmar;(4) Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA;(5) Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution, 3001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA;(6) State Museum of Natural History, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany |
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| Abstract: | We collected several individuals of the Slaty-bellied Tesia Tesia olivea in the temperate rain forest of the sub-Himalayan region of northeastern Burma/Myanmar in February/March 2004 and March 2006.
Subsequent comparison of these with T. olivea from northeastern India and northern Thailand revealed that while our northeastern Burma/Myanmar birds were similar to those
from northeastern India, specimens of both populations were distinctly different from T. olivea from Chiang Mai Province of northern Thailand and northern Vietnam. Herein, we designate the latter populations as members
of a new subspecies of T. olivea based on analyses of variations in morphometric characters, plumage, song, and mitochondrial (mt)DNA sequence. |
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