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The current classification of the chilean representatives of the passerine family Rhinocryptidae includes eight species. Three of them contain subspecies that don’t exhibit clear differences. Moreover, differences among two lineages of Scytalopus genera and two species of Pteroptochos are very scarce. We propose a new methodology based on ecological and behavioural patterns in order to understand the concept of speciation in this group of birds. According to our results, we postulate that there is not a cut criteria to establish differences among three sister lineages of current classification. This way the methodology developed by us does not allow to establish divergence for a given common ancestor. Our methodology allows to establish comparison among previously determined phylogenetic lineages. Our results show how when integrating behaviour and ecological terms as biological traits next to morphological characters of the plumage, it allows us to conclude that there is decrease of the distances among sister lineages in the cluster tree.
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Correa Rueda, A., Mpodozis, J. Speciation of chilean Rhinocryptidae (Avian) based on their behaviour. Nat Prec (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.1597.2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2008.1597.2