Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
An extinct hummingbird species that never was: a cautionary tale about sampling issues in molecular phylogenetics
J. L. Perez-Eman, J. Perdigon Ferreira, N. Gutierrez-Pinto…·C. D. Cadena
The paper reanalyzes mitochondrial DNA data to challenge the status of Heliangelus zusii as a distinct species, suggesting it may result from hybridization with Aglaiocercus kingii.
DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.11