identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03B987927074FA3EFCC4F123DC82B815.text	03B987927074FA3EFCC4F123DC82B815.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Carpodacus eos (Stresemann 1930)	<div><p>CARPODACUS EOS /PULCHERRIMUS COMPLEX</p> <p>The C. eos / pulcherrimus complex consists of four lineages: pulcherrimus / argyrophrys, davidianus, eos, and waltoni. The first and last two lineages are sister to each other. Subspecies argyrophrys and eos breed along the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau (Fig. 5), and are largely sympatric but (always?) elevationally parapatric (E. Stresemann, unpublished manuscript from the 1950s). Thus, the latter two belong to two different biological species. On the other hand, eos and waltoni should be treated as conspecific because of the young age of their MRCA (less than 1 Myr) and their close connection in the haplotype network (Fig. 4). Because of the priority rule of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, 1999), this species must be named Carpodacus waltoni (Sharpe, 1905) with subspecies eos (Stresemann, 1930) and waltoni. Carpodacus pulcherrimus (F. Moore, 1856) consequently is left with only the subspecies argyrophrys Berlioz, 1929, davidianus A. Milne-Edwards, 1866, and nominate pulcherrimus. This taxonomy had already been suggested by Erwin Stresemann (in the same unpublished manuscript as mentioned above).</p> <p>Carpodacus pulcherrimus and C. waltoni are also slightly ecologically segregated, with the former preferring the brushy zone just above the mountain forest (Juniperus and Rhododendron; Diesselhorst, 1968), and the latter preferring alpine grassland, with Rosa and Berberis bushes (Lu, Gong &amp; Ma, 2011, Lu Xin, pers. comm.). For Himalayan high-altitude finches, Landmann &amp; Winding (1995) found that large species may persist in higher elevations, but C. waltoni is actually smaller than C. pulcherrimus (Stresemann, 1930; E. Stresemann, unpubl. data: male wing length on average 71.7 mm in eos, 79.6 mm in waltoni versus 82.1 mm in argyrophrys, 79.6 mm in davidianus, 77.6 mm in pulcherrimus) although it is found at higher elevations (see Results). Sympatric argyrophrys and eos show the largest difference in wing length (and possibly further niche dimensions).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B987927074FA3EFCC4F123DC82B815	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Tietze, Dieter Thomas;Päckert, Martin;Martens, Jochen;Lehmann, Henriette;Sun, Yue-Hua	Tietze, Dieter Thomas, Päckert, Martin, Martens, Jochen, Lehmann, Henriette, Sun, Yue-Hua (2013): Complete phylogeny and historical biogeography of true rosefinches (Aves: Carpodacus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (1): 215-234, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12057, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12057
