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Polioptila caerulea (blue-gray gnatcatcher)
Taxonomy
Motacilla caerulea was named by Linnaeus (1766). It is extant.
It was recombined as Polioptila caerulea by Clements et al. (2017), Oswald and Steadman (2018).
It was recombined as Polioptila caerulea by Clements et al. (2017), Oswald and Steadman (2018).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1766 | Motacilla caerulea Linnaeus |
| 2017 | Polioptila caerulea Clements et al. |
| 2018 | Polioptila caerulea Oswald and Steadman p. 367 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Polioptila caerulea Linnaeus 1766 [blue-gray gnatcatcher]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, o = order | |||||
| References: Marsh 1875, Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Bahamas (New Providence Island) | Polioptila caerulea (194588) |