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A Phylogenetic Analysis of Recent Anseriform Genera Using Morphological Characters A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF RECENT ANSERIFORM GENERA USING MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS BRADLEY C. LIVEZEY Museumof NaturalHistory and Department of Systematicsand Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 USA ABSTRACT.--Aphylogenetic analysis of all Recentgenera of the Anseriformesusing 120 morphologicalcharacters supports much of the current consensusregarding intraordinal relationships.I found that (1) Anseranasshould be placedin a monotypicfamily; (2) Dendro- cygna,Thalassornis, geese and swans,and Stictonettaare paraphyleticto the rest of the Anati- dae; (3) Cereopsisis the sistergroup to Anserand Branta,and Coscorobais the sistergroup to Cygnusand Olor; (4) Plectropterusis the sistergroup to the Tadorninae(shelducks) and the Anatinae (typical ducks);(5) the shelducksare monophyleticand include Sarkidiornis(pro- visionally), Malacorhynchus,Hymenolaimus, Merganetta, and Tachyeres;(6) the tribe "Cairinini" ("perchingducks") is an unnatural,polyphyletic assemblage and is rejected;(7) the dabbling ducks(including the smaller"perching ducks") comprise an unresolved,probably paraphy- letic group;(8) tribal monophyly of the pochards(including Marmaronettaand Rhodonessa), seaducks (including the eiders),and stiff-tailedducks (including Heteronetta)is confirmed; and (9) the retention of Mergellusand resurrectionof Noraonyxare recommendedbased on clarificationsof intratribal relationships.Problematic groups, effects of homoplasy,phenetic comparisons,life-history correlates,biogeographic patterns, and fossilspecies are discussed, and a phylogeneticclassification of Recentgenera is proposed.Received 18 November1985, accepted2 April 1986. THE order Anseriformes is considered to 1962; Davies and Frith 1964; Raikow 1971; Kear comprisethe families Anhimidae (2 genera, 3 and Murton 1973). Most authors assumed the species)and Anatidae (approximately43 gen- validity of the tribesand usedthem asworking era and 150 species).The family Anatidae is units in phylogenetic analysesof the family undoubtedlyone of the best-studiedgroups of (e.g. Johnsgard 1961a, Bottjer 1983). A few birds, owing largely to the historical impor- workers named additional tribes (Moynihan tance of waterfowl for hunting (Weller 1964a), 1958, Delacour 1959, Woolfenden 1961, Weller domestication (Delacour 1964a), and aviculture 1968b) or attempted to test the naturalnessof (Delacour 1964b). those originally proposed(Cotter 1957, Wool- The classificationof the Anatidae proposed fenden 1961, Brush 1976). by Delacour and Mayr (1945) has been fol- Behavioral characters have been accorded lowed, with only minor revisions,in recent de- considerableweight in classificationsof water- cades (e.g. Delacour 1954, 1956, 1959, 1964c; fowl. Delacour and Mayr (1945) based their Johnsgard 1961a, 1962, 1965a, 1978, 1979; revision on charactersthey consideredto be Woolfenden 1961; Frith 1967; Bellrose 1976; "non-adaptive,"including behavioraldisplays, Palmer 1976; A.O.U. 1983; Bottjer 1983; Scott nesting and feeding habits, and selected mor- 1985). Perhaps the most innovative aspect of phological characters(e.g. posture, body pro- this system(inspired by the works of Salvadori portions,head shape,syringeal bulla). Reliance 1895;Phillips 1922, 1923, 1925;and Peters 1931) on comparativeethology in anatid systematics was the erection of "tribes," groups of genera was furthered by the studiesof Lorenz (1951- that were consideredto be closelyrelated with- 1953), McKinney (1953), and Myres (1959) and in the subfamilies of the Anatidae. These tribes was increased significantly by Johnsgard becamethe primary focusof subsequentworks (1960a-c, 1961a-d, 1962, 1964, 1965a, b, 1966a, on anatid classification,many of which ad- b, 1967, 1978), whose work was largely etho- dressedthe tribal assignmentsof problematic logical and influenced profoundly by that of genera (e.g. Humphrey and Butsch 1958; Delacour (1954, 1956, 1959, 1964c). This em- Johnsgard1960a, 1961b; Humphrey and Ripley phasis, work on interspecific hybridization 737 The Auk 103: 737-754. October 1986 738 BRADLEYC. LIVEZEY [Auk, Vol. 103 (Sibley 1957;Gray 1958;Johnsgard 1960d, 1963), Casarca(= Tadorna),Metopiana (= Netta), Oidemia(= and studyof plumagepatterns of downy young Melanitta), and Charitonetta(= Bucephala).For Anas, (Delacour 1954, 1956, 1959; Frith 1955, 1964b; speciesfrom several subgenerawere examined: Mal- Kear 1967) were prompted in part by the op- lard (Anasplatyrhynchos), Northern Pintail (A. acuta), portunity to observe waterfowl in avicultural American Wigeon (A. americana),Green-winged Teal collections. (A. crecca),and Northern Shoveler(A. clypeata).Oth- er speciesof Anaswere studied for certain characters. Other data used in the classification of wa- Salvadori'sDuck [Anas(Salvadorina) waigiuensis], pro- terfowl include syringealanatomy (Humphrey visionally assignedto Anas but considered problem- 1955,1958; Johnsgard 1961e), cytogenetics (Ya- atic by some(Mayr 1931, Kear 1975), was not includ- mashina 1952), serology (Cotter 1957, Bottjer ed because no skeletal specimens were available 1983), osteology(DeMay 1940, Verheyen 1955, (Wood et al. 1982).Except for Rhodonessa(monotypic, Humphrey and Butsch1958, Woolfenden 1961, probably extinct; one complete skeleton) and Camp- Humphrey and Ripley 1962, Raikow 1971), torhynchus(monotypic, extinct; castsof two partial feather lice (Timmermann 1963), eggshell skeletons),all genera analyzed were representedby structure (Tyler 1964), egg-white proteins (Sib- at least two complete skeletons. For all polytypic genera at least two specieswere studied, and a num- ley 1960, Sibley and Ahlquist 1972), feather ber of the common, diverse, or problematic genera proteins(Brush 1976), royology (Zusi and Bentz were represented by large series. 1978), lipids from the uropygial gland (Jacob For Camptorhynchus,character states for unavail- and Glaser 1975, Jacob 1982), and mitochon- able elementseither were assumedprovisionally (for drial DNA (Kessler and Avise 1984). characters invariant within the anatines) or coded as These studies, with the possible exceptions "missing." Assumption of anatine characters for of those by Lorenz (1953) and Kesslerand Av- Camptorhynchusis conservative (cf. Humphrey and ise (1984), estimatedthe evolutionaryrelation- Butsch 1958, Zusi and Bentz 1978) and did not alter ships of groups by assessmentsof overall sim- its positionin the resultanttree (comparedwith anal- ilarities; no attempts were made to determine yses without this assumption),but permitted more efficient computation of trees and a shorter final so- primitive conditions or to distinguish shared lution. primitive charactersfrom shared derived char- Analysisof characters.--Forthe phylogenetic anal- acters ("special" similarity). Moreover, the ysis presented, 120 characterswere used (Appendix "evolutionary trees" presentedin mostof these 1); a majority of the osteologicalcharacters were de- works lack referencesto the specificcharacters scribed in Woolfenden (1961) and illustrated in used to support the branching patterns (e.g. Howard (1929). Some characterswere rejected be- Delacourand Mayr 1945;Johnsgard 1961a, 1978; causevariation prevented even modal state assign- Woolfenden 1961). ments for somegenera or becausediscrete states could I performed a phylogenetic (cladistic) anal- not be distinguished. ysis of Recent genera of Anseriformes using Sourcesfor data on the postcranialskeleton were Wetmore (1951), Rand (1954), Verheyen (1955), 120 morphologicalcharacters. I present a hy- Woolfenden(1961), Humphrey and Clark (1964), and pothetical evolutionary tree for the order, con- Raikow (1971). Additional sourceswere (by anatom- sider the taxonomic implications, and discuss ical region): integument and molt (DeMay 1940, selectedlife-history and biogeographiccorre- Siegfried 1970, Palmer 1976), trachea and syrinx lates and the classification of selected fossil (Wetmore 1926; Niethammer 1952; Wolff and Wolff species.Many of the characterswere described 1952; Humphrey 1955, 1958, unpubl. data; Hum- first in the pioneering work of Woolfenden phrey and Butsch 1958; Johnsgard1961b, e; Hum- (1961), to whom I dedicatethis paper. phrey and Ripley 1962; Humphrey and Clark 1964; Weller 1968b), and skull (Abbott 1938, Harrison 1958, Raikow 1970a, Olson and Feduccia 1980a). I included METHODS only qualitative charactersbecause the polarities and Taxaand specimens.--Both genera of Anhimidae and statesof mensural charactersare especially difficult all Recent genera of Anatidae were studied. I ana- to determine. Each character is an anatomical trait for lyzed separatelyseveral subgenera (sometimes con- which two or more discrete character states were de- sidered genera), including Olor, Lophonetta,Pteronet- fined. ta, Amazonetta,Callonetta, Mergellus, Lophodytes, and Derivationof trees.--Polarities of each character Nomonyx.Several other "subgenera"were found to (primitive states) were determined by comparison be identical to the taxa with which they generally with outgroups--Burhinus and Larus (Charadri- are merged and are not labeled separatelyin the trees: iformes), Ortalis and Meleagris(Galliformes), Ciconia October1986] Phylogenyofthe Anseriformes 739 (Ciconiiformes), and Phoenicopterus(Ciconiiformes or tropterus(Peters 1931, Delacour and Mayr 1945) Charadriiformes)--each of which has been proposed and the proposition that Anseranasis an aber- as closelyrelated to the Anseriformes(Delacour and rant "true goose"(Davies and Frith 1964,Frith Mayr 1945;Delacour 1954;Mainardi 1962;Simonetta 1967). Both the
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