Comment on Jukema et al. (2015), “Geographic variation in morphometrics, molt, and migration suggests ongoing subspeciation in Pacific Golden-Plovers (Pluvialis fulva)”

Alice Cibois; Frederick H. Sheldon

doi:10.1642/AUK-15-202.1

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20 January 2016 Comment on Jukema et al. (2015), “Geographic variation in morphometrics, molt, and migration suggests ongoing subspeciation in Pacific Golden-Plovers ( Pluvialis fulva)”

Alice Cibois, Frederick H. Sheldon

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The Auk, 133(2):129-130 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1642/AUK-15-202.1

Abstract

Jukema and colleagues published in The Auk a study dealing with geographic variation within the Pacific Golden-Plover (Pluvialis fulva). We highlight a taxonomic problem created unwittingly by the last sentence of their article, in which the authors suggest a new name for the Siberian population.

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Alice Cibois and Frederick H. Sheldon "Comment on Jukema et al. (2015), “Geographic variation in morphometrics, molt, and migration suggests ongoing subspeciation in Pacific Golden-Plovers ( Pluvialis fulva)”," The Auk 133(2), 129-130, (20 January 2016). https://doi.org/10.1642/AUK-15-202.1

Received: 21 October 2015; Accepted: 1 November 2015; Published: 20 January 2016

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