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Issue: Vol. 5486 No. 4: 29 Jul. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-07-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.4.1
Page range: 451-475
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Resolving the conflictive phylogenetic relationships of Oceanites (Oceanitidae: Procellariiformes) with the description of a new species

Centro Bahía Lomas; Facultad de Ciencias; Universidad Santo Tomás; Chile; Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile; Santiago; Chile
Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile; Santiago; Chile
Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile; Santiago; Chile; Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge. P.O. Box 1918; Kailua HI 96734; USA
Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile; Santiago; Chile
Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust; 174 Ti Point Road; RD5; Warkworth; 0985; New Zealand
Department of Zoology; University of Otago; Dunedin; New Zealand
Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust; 174 Ti Point Road; RD5; Warkworth; 0985; New Zealand
Departamento de Zoología; Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas; Universidad de Concepción; Chile; Universidad Católica de Santa María; Arequipa; Perú
Aves evolution storm-petrels systematics taxonomy

Abstract

The family Oceanitidae, formerly considered a subfamily of Hydrobatidae, includes all the small storm-petrels of the southern hemisphere. The ancestor-descendent relationships and evolutionary history of one of its genera, Oceanites, have been partially studied, yielding contrasting results. We revised the phylogenetic relationships of this group using Bayesian inference (BI) based on new sequence data of the mitochondrial gene Cytb and linear morphological measurements of all species and five subspecies-level taxa in Oceanites, including a new taxon from the Chilean Andes. Our BI results show that the Oceanites genus is monophyletic and composed of four well-supported clades (posterior probability > 0.95): (1) chilensis; (2) exasperatus; (3) gracilis, pincoyae, and barrosi sp. nov.; and (4) oceanicus and galapagoensis. The species O. chilensis is a basal clade within Oceanites. According to our time-calibrated tree, the split between Oceanites and the other genera in Family Oceanitidae is estimated to be ~35.9 Mya, and the oldest divergence within Oceanites (the split between O. chilensis and other Oceanites) was dated to the early Miocene, around c. 21.3 Mya. The most probable geographic origin of Oceanites is the Southern Ocean. The morphological data suggest continuous size variation between Oceanites taxa, ranging from smallest in gracilis to largest in exasperatus. Based on our phylogenetic hypothesis, and morphological analyses, we suggest elevating to species status the taxa galapagoensis, chilensis, and exasperatus, and we describe a new taxon barrosi sp. nov., thus recognizing a total of seven species within the genus Oceanites.

 

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