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Replacement names for Chapinia and Ripleyia (Aves: Passeriformes: Muscicapidae)

DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4107.4.9
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Gary Voelker at Texas A&M University
Gary Voelker
Rauri C K Bowie at University of California, Berkeley
Rauri C K Bowie
Kevin W. Conway at Texas A&M University
Kevin W. Conway
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Earlier this year, two of us (GV & RB) introduced the genus-group names Chapinia and Ripleyia (in Voelker et al. 2016) for two species of African flycatchers allied to Muscicapa. We recently became aware that both of these genus-group names are preoccupied within Animalia (Chapinia by Chapinia Ewing, 1927 [Insecta: Phthiraptera] and Ripleyia by Ripleyia Cossman, 1920 [Mollusca]), rendering them junior homonyms. Following Article 60 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999) we herein provide replacement names for the two generic names introduced in Voelker et al. (2016).
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Replacement names for Chapinia and Ripleyia
(Aves: Passeriformes: Muscicapidae)
GARY VOELKER
1
, RAURI C. K. BOWIE
2
& KEVIN W. CONWAY
1*
1
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences and Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections, Texas A&M University, College
Station, TX 77843, USA
2
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, 3101 Valley Life Science Building, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Corresponding author: E-mail: kevin.conway@tamu.edu
Earlier this year, two of us (GV & RB) introduced the genus-group names Chapinia and Ripleyia (in Voelker et al. 2016)
for two species of African flycatchers allied to Muscicapa. We recently became aware that both of these genus-group
names are preoccupied within Animalia (Chapinia by Chapinia Ewing, 1927 [Insecta: Phthiraptera] and Ripleyia by
Ripleyia Cossman, 1920 [Mollusca]), rendering them junior homonyms. Following Article 60 of the International Code
of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 1999) we herein provide replacement names for the two generic names introduced in
Voelker et al. (2016).
Chapinornis, new replacement name
Type species: Fraseria cinerascens Hartlaub, 1857
Etymology: A combination of the surname Chapin and the Greek ὄρνις (Ornis), a bird, and a common suffix for
bird genera. This name honors James P. Chapin, for his extensive documentation of, and research on, the birds of the
Belgian Congo. Gender masculine.
Remarks: Replacement name for Chapinia Voelker & Bowie in Voelker, Huntley, Peñalba & Bowie, 2016.
Ripleyornis, new replacement name
Type species: Muscicapa ruficauda Swainson, 1838
Etymology: A combination of the surname Ripley and the Greek ὄρνις (Ornis), a bird, and a common suffix for bird
genera. This name honors S. Dillon Ripley, former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for his extensive work on the
birds of India and southern Asia. Gender masculine.
Remarks: Replacement name for Ripleyia Voelker & Bowie in Voelker, Huntley, Peñalba & Bowie, 2016.
Acknowledgements
We thank Laurent Raty and Peter Kovalik for identifying nomenclatural issues with generic-group names introduced in
Voelker et al. (2016), and Ricardo Palma of the RCCAN for comments on the manuscript. This is publication number
1516 of the Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections of Texas A&M University.
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... Based on this observation, Voelker et al. (2016a) proposed a new genus name for M. ruficauda: Ripleyia. This genus proposal was itself subsequently revised to Ripleyornis following the discovery that the former was a junior homonym for a genus of Mollusca (Voelker et al., 2016b). Here, we evaluate the legitimacy of this new genus assignment by assessing the phylogenetic affinity of M. ruficauda utilizing genetic data from a near-complete sampling of the genus Ficedula (30 of 32 species) and broad coverage of the family Muscicapidae. ...
... Based on our results, the new genus name Ripleyia proposed by Voelker et al. (2016a) as well as the replacement name Ripleyornis (Voelker et al., 2016b) for M. ruficauda are artifacts of insufficient taxon sampling of the greater Muscicapidae. Accordingly, both Ripleyia and Ripleyornis are junior synonyms of Ficedula. ...
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