近日，新加坡国立大学Frank E. Rheindt等研究人员报道了山地群岛的鸟类新物种。相关论文2020年1月10日刊发在国际学术期刊《科学》上。

据介绍，鸟类是最著名的动物类别，自1999年以来，每年仅约有五到六个新物种被描述。

附：英文原文

Title: A lost world in Wallacea: Description of a montane archipelagic avifauna

Author: Frank E. Rheindt, Dewi M. Prawiradilaga, Hidayat Ashari, Suparno, Chyi Yin Gwee, Geraldine W. X. Lee, Meng Yue Wu, Nathaniel S. R. Ng

Issue&Volume: 2020/01/10

Abstract: Birds are the best-known animal class, with only about five or six new species descriptions per year since 1999. Integrating genomic and phenotypic research with arduous fieldwork in remote regions, we describe five new songbird species and five new subspecies from a small area near Sulawesi, Indonesia, all collected in a single 6-week expedition. Two factors contributed to the description of this large number of species from such a small geographic area: (i) Knowledge of Quaternary Period land connections helped pinpoint isolated islands likely to harbor substantial endemism and (ii) studying accounts of historic collectors such as Alfred Wallace facilitated the identification of undercollected islands. Our findings suggest that humans’ understanding of biogeographically complex regions such as Wallacea remains incomplete.

DOI: 10.1126/science.aax2146

Source: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6474/167