Constructing Check-Lists and Avifauna-Wide Reviews: Mexican Bird Taxonomy Revisited
[摘要] In our ongoing efforts to understand and summarize the Mexican avifauna (
Escalante-Pliego et al. 1993,
Peterson and Navarro-Sigüenza 2000b), we have become aware of numerous species taxa that merit full recognition as species, under both the biological species concept and the evolutionary species concept (
Navarro-Sigüenza et al. 1992,
Peterson and Navarro-Sigüenza 2000a,
Puebla-Olivares et al. 2008). This realization led to the development of a new, country-wide taxonomic treatment under the evolutionary species concept (
Navarro-Sigüenza and Peterson 2004), which was subsequently criticized as cursory and unscientific by Remsen (
2005). Instead of miring the discourse in more opinion, the purpose of this commentary is to briefly review new evidence, published after our original analysis, to establish how well that first-pass analysis fares in light of much more detailed evidence. We then reflect on how the process of assembling regional “avifaunas” might be optimized.
