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This plot again show taxa arrainged by year of description (Y-axis). They are grouped along the X-axis by the numbering system applied by Sibley & Monroe, and previously by the AOU.
This divides taxa into broad geographic groupings. These groupings are:
NA North America MA Middle America Parc Palearctic Ornt Orient ClVz Columbia, Venezuela SAm South America (the remainder) SAfr Southern Africa Afr Africa (the remainder) ANZ Australia, New Zealand PapNG Papua, New GuineaSuperimposed on this, are color coded letters indicating the authors of the taxa.
Several points are immediately apparent.
Author | # of taxa |
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Linnaeus | 710 | Vieillot | 387 | Gould | 386 | Gmelin | 353 | Temminck | 331 | Sclater,PL | 316 | Sharpe | 195 | Bonaparte | 181 | Blyth | 173 | Lesson | 165 | Latham | 152 | Gray,GR | 152 | Reichenow | 137 | Hartlaub | 136 | Lafresnaye | 130 | Cabanis | 129 | Swainson | 128 | Salvadori | 120 | Sclater,PL & Salvin | 106 | Boddaert | 106 | Lawrence | 103 | Cassin | 94 | Hartert | 93 | Pallas | 91 | SmithA | 86 | Vigors | 83 | Lichtenstein | 82 | Muller,PLS | 80 | Hodgson | 79 | Orbigny & Lafresnaye | 78 | Salvin | 76 | Pelzeln | 74 | Spix | 71 | Shelley | 68 | Shaw | 67 | Ogilvie-Grant | 66 | Ruppell | 62 | Schlegel | 61 | Wagler | 59 | Tschudi | 57 | Horsfield | 56 | Wied-Neuwied | 53 | Chapman | 53 | Taczanowski | 52 | Scopoli | 51 | Rothschild | 46 | Sundevall | 45 | Hellmayr | 44 | Ridgway | 43 | Swinhoe | 42 |
Clearly there are three rough groupings: Linnaeus; (Vieillot,Gould,Gmelin,Temminck,Sclater); and all the remainder.
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