Abstract
We report the long overlooked first record of Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina in Brazil, a male specimen collected at Sao Paulo de Olivenca, Amazonas state, in March 1923, by Samuel M. Klages. This is the first and only documented record for the country, pre-dating a sight record from Benjamin Constant, in extreme western Brazil, in April 1966.
Highlights
We report the long overlooked first record of Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina in Brazil, a male specimen collected at São Paulo de Olivença, Amazonas state, in March 1923, by Samuel M
The presence of G. saphirina in the last-named country has hitherto uniquely rested on an undocumented claim by Willis (1987), who reported observing a single individual on the forest floor, attracted by an imitation of its voice, in the environs of Benjamin Constant (04°22'58"S, 70°1'51"W), Amazonas state, on 17 April 1966
In May 2015, during a search for online specimen data pertaining to G. saphirina sensu lato, via VertNet, GMK’s attention was drawn to a specimen held in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH), Pittsburgh, USA, pertaining to G. s. saphirina (Figure 1)
Summary
Between the publication of Peters (1937) and the mid1990s, the Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina Bonaparte, 1855, and the Indigo-crowned (Purple) Quail-Dove G. purpurata (Salvin, 1878) were generally retained as a single species (e.g. Baptista et al 1997), but since the early 2000s their allopatric distributions, different morphology (Gibbs et al 2001, Ridgely & Greenfield 2001) and, most recently, vocalizations (Donegan & Salaman 2012) have been used to repromote purpurata to specific status, a position since favoured by most taxonomic committees and checklists (e.g. del Hoyo & Collar 2014, Remsen et al 2015), though not by Dickinson & Remsen (2013). ABSTRACT: We report the long overlooked first record of Sapphire Quail-Dove Geotrygon saphirina in Brazil, a male specimen collected at São Paulo de Olivença, Amazonas state, in March 1923, by Samuel M.
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