Phylogenetic and morphologic evidence confirm the presence of a new montane cloud forest associated bird species in Mexico, the Mountain Elaenia (Elaenia frantzii; Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae)

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1 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
2 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
3 Ornithology & Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America
4 Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, México
5 Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, México
6 Unidad de Investigación en Medicina Experimental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, México
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.1491v1
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Accepted
Subject Areas
Biodiversity, Biogeography, Genetics, Taxonomy, Zoology
Keywords
ornithology, Passeriformes, new record, Chiapas, México, Central America, niche modeling, Elaenia frantzii, suboscine
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© 2015 Hanna et al.
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Cite this article
Hanna ZR, Ortiz-Ramírez MF, Ríos-Muñoz CA, Cayetano-Rosas H, Bowie RCK, Navarro-Sigüenza AG. 2015. Phylogenetic and morphologic evidence confirm the presence of a new montane cloud forest associated bird species in Mexico, the Mountain Elaenia (Elaenia frantzii; Aves: Passeriformes: Tyrannidae) PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1491v1

Abstract

We here provide evidence to support an extension of the recognized distributional range of the Mountain Elaenia (Elaenia frantzii) to include southern Mexico. We collected two specimens in breeding condition in northwestern Sierra Norte de Chiapas, Mexico. Morphologic and genetic evidence support their identity as Elaenia frantzii. We compared environmental parameters of records across the entire geographic range of the species to those at the northern Chiapas survey site and found no climatic differences among localities.

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