Antrostomus, BONAPARTE, 1838

Sigurðsson, Snorri & Cracraft, Joel, 2014, Deciphering the diversity and history of New World nightjars (Aves: Caprimulgidae) using molecular phylogenetics, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (3), pp. 506-545 : 539

ANTROSTOMUS BONAPARTE, 1838

Type species

Antrostomus carolinensis (previously Caprimulgus carolinensis J.F. Gmelin, 1789 ).

Definition

The clade containing A. carolinensis and all species that share a more recent common ancestor with A. carolinensis than with Phalaenoptilus nuttallii , or any species in the genera Nyctiphrynus and Siphonorhis , or with species in other nightjar genera such as Caprimulgus , Chordeiles , Eurostopodus , Gactornis , Hydropsalis , Lyncornis , Macrodipteryx , Nyctidromus , Nyctiprogne , Podager , and Veles .

Included species

Antrostomus arizonae (Brewster, 1881) , Antrostomus badius (Bangs & Peck, 1908) , Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmelin, 1789) , Antrostomus cubanensis (Lawrence, 1860) , Antrostomus noctitherus (Wetmore, 1919) , Antrostomus ridgwayi (Nelson, 1897) , Antrostomus rufus (Boddaert, 1783) , Antrostomus salvini ( Hartert, 1892) , Antrostomus saturatus (Salvin, 1870) , Antrostomus seriocaudatus (Cassin, 1849) , and Antrostomus vociferus (Wilson, 1812) . The inclusion of A. ekmani , as suggested by Cleere (2010), is possible, but this study does not have data to support its split from A. cubanensis .

Comments

Genetic evidence in this study supports the move of these 11 species from Caprimulgus into Antrostomus ( Han et al., 2010; Chesser et al., 2012), and demonstrates the monophyly of the genus ( Fig. 5 ). This was proposed by Han et al. (2010), but this study also provides the first molecular evidence for the placement of A. cubanensis and A. seriocaudatus in the genus, as well as the elevation of A. v. arizonae to full phylogenetic species status as A. arizonae , which has already been supported by morphological and vocalization data ( Chesser et al., 2012).

Figures

Figure 5. A phylogeny of the poorwill clade based on a maximum-likelihood (ML) analysis of a concatenated 5298-bp molecular data set. ML bootstrap values higher than 60 and Bayesian posterior probability values higher than 0.95 are displayed on the nodes. Names on the tree represent current taxonomy; names on the right represent those resulting from this revision (see text).