The Open Ornithology Journal

2015, 8 : 39-42
Published online 2015 October 13. DOI: 10.2174/1874453201508010039
Publisher ID: TOOENIJ-8-39

Formal Description of a New Subspecies of the European Robin from Gran Canaria Island, Spain (Aves: Muscicapidae: Erithacus rubecula marionae subsp. nov.)

Christian Dietzen , J. Pieter Michels and Michael Wink
Heidelberg University, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, INF 364, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

ABSTRACT

Based on genetic and morphometric differences, Dietzen et al. (2003) [1] proposed to separate the Gran Canaria Robin from E. r. superbus of Tenerife as a new taxon in a nomenclaturally invalid way. Here, we provide a formal description of the new subspecies (Erithacus rubecula marionae subsp. nov.) in accordance with the rules of the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature.

Keywords:

Erithacus rubecula marionae subsp. nov, Gran Canaria Robin.