A preliminary bird list from Río Luis, Veraguas provides further insight into an avian suture zone in Caribbean Panama
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Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Bird Collection, Panama, Republic of Panama
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- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Biogeography, Zoology
- Keywords
- ornithology, neotropical phylogeography, birds, species ranges, suture zone
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- © 2019 McLaughlin et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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- 2019. A preliminary bird list from Río Luis, Veraguas provides further insight into an avian suture zone in Caribbean Panama. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27940v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27940v1
Abstract
We present a preliminary list of birds collected on the Caribbean coast of the province of Veraguas, Panama. Here, we found birds not known from the area, instead they were believed to range limits ending either east or west of our collection site. These include: Cnipodectes subbrunneus, Juliamyia julie, Gymnopithys bicolor bicolor, Mionectes (oleagineus) affinis, and western phylospecies of Malacoptila panamensis and Xenops minutus. Our results reaffirm that the coast of Veraguas is an important suture zone between Mesoamerica and South America avifaunas along the Caribbean coast of Panama.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.
Supplemental Information
Figure 1: Map of the sampling locality (indicated by the star)
Black line represents the Carretera Guabal-Río Luis-Calovébora, shown at its extent in August 2019.