Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by
this split may have been replaced with identifications of Eclectus. This
happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the
output taxa.
Review identifications of Eclectus roratus 19225
Sumba Eclectus Eclectus cornelia, Tanimbar Eclectus E. riedeli, and Papuan Eclectus E. polychloros are split from Moluccan Eclectus (formerly Eclectus Parrot) E. roratus (Clements 2007:139)
Summary: Four species are now recognized in the Eclectus Parrot complex. Each occurs in a separate island group from eastern Indonesia through northern Australia, and some are likely threatened by trade.
Details: Six forms of the genus Eclectus were originally described as full species, and of these, four form major groups on plumage, size, and biogeography (a fifth is of unknown provenance). They have all long been treated as a single species (e.g., Peters 1937), with surprisingly little dispute among subsequent authors despite the great amount of variation encompassed. The mtDNA phylogeny of Braun et al. (2017) showed deep mitochondrial divergence congruent with the four major plumage groups of Eclectus, leading WGAC, HBW and BirdLife International (2022), and Clements et al. (2023) to treat these as four separate species.
According to ebird, feral populations in Singapore, Palau and some area of Australia are polychloros.
The former nominal species is restricted to the Moluccas.
@rjq What about the captive and escapees from outside these areas? They'll all end up Eclectus sp. but maybe that's a good thing since it will force people to reevaluate the ID?
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
According to ebird, feral populations in Singapore, Palau and some area of Australia are polychloros.
The former nominal species is restricted to the Moluccas.