See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325263719 The diversity of early Miocene pigeons (Columbidae) in New Zealand Article · December 2017 CITATIONS READS 0 155 5 authors, including: Vanesa De Pietri R. Paul Scofield Canterbury Museum Canterbury Museum 49 PUBLICATIONS 245 CITATIONS 252 PUBLICATIONS 3,366 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Alan Tennyson Suzanne J Hand Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa UNSW Sydney 200 PUBLICATIONS 1,770 CITATIONS 237 PUBLICATIONS 3,207 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Abundance, biomass and biodiversity of Australian marsupials through time from Riversleigh, Australia. View project New Zealand Seabird Systematics and Demography View project All content following this page was uploaded by Trevor H Worthy on 21 May 2018. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. The diversity of early Miocene pigeons (Columbidae) in New Zealand Vanesa L. DE PIETRP, R. Paul SCOFJELD1, Alan J. D. TENNYSON2, Suzanne J. 4 HAND3, & Trevor H. WORTHY 1Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand. [email protected]; [email protected] 2Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. [email protected] 3PANGEA Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth apd Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales 2052, Australia. s.hand@unsw,edu.au 4School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide 5001, South Australia, Australia. [email protected] Author for correspondence: Vanesa L. De PietFi urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:19491FF3-334B-4595-8DC4-F3FC9BB00EE2 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:39BA13D57-ED86-4B30-BC6F-FA1FDF9705CC urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:6F3BB607-B2EC-4EF7-AE95-069CB46A406E Abstract: Two species of closely related native pigeons currently inhabit the New Zea}and archipelago, namely Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae and fl, c/iathp,mensis. An l')arly Miocene pigeon from the St Bathans Fauna (South Island, New Zealand), Rupephaps taketake, was described based on a coraf!oid and hyPothesized to be clos.ely related to species of Hemiphaga and the Australian Topknot Pigeon Lopholaimµs antarcticus. :Here we describe additional material of R. taketake, namely a tarsometatarsu.s, and reassess it.s affinities based on a comprehensive sample of extant comparative specimens. We hypothesize that R. taketake is not more closely related to species of Hemiphaga than to the clade including Indonesian/Melanesian mountain pigeons (Gymnophaps) and L. antarcticus, and was likely to have been 01,Jtside the clade including these taxa. A .second species of pigeon, Deliaphaps zealandieJ1,sis gen. et sp. nov. occurred in New Zealand during the early Miocene, Although more fossil material will be needed to corroborate the phylogenetic affinities of this pigeon, based on the carpometacarpus, we propose a tentative close relationship with the clade including the Samoan Tooth-billed Pigeop Didunculus strigirostris, crowned pigeons of the genus-level tax.or). Goura, al).d the Nicobar Pigeon Caloenas nicobarica. This is the first record for members of this clade in the southern p.art of Zealandia. Keywords: St Bathans Fauna, New Zealand, Fossil birds, Fruit pigeons. ResUJIJen: Dos especies nativai,de palomas, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae apd H. chathamensis, residen actualmente en N11,eva Zelanda y sus islas yecinas. La descripci6J'l de Rupephaps taketake, una paloma del Mioceno temprano de la fauna de St Bathlj.ns (Otago Central, Nueva Zelanda), se bas6 en un coracoides y se hipotetiz6 que estaba rellj.ci.onadlj. con las especies de Hemiphaga y la Paloma Bicrestada de Australia I,,opholaimu.s antarcticus. AquJ se describe material adicional de R. taketake, a saber, un tarsometatarso, y reevaluamos .sus afinidades basandonos en una muestra exhaustjva de especimenes comparativos de especies recientes. Se plantea la hip6tesis de que R. taketake no esta mas estrechamente relacionada con las especies de Hemiphaga que con el <!lado que incluye L.. antarcticus y las piµomas montanas �Gymnophaps) de Indonesia y Melanesia, y su posicl6n es probablemente fuera del clado que mcluye estos taxones. Una segunda espeC!iede paloma, Deliaphp,pszelandien,sis gen. et sp. nov. tambien existi6 en Nueva Zelanda durante el Mioceno temprano. Aunque se necesltarfa mas m_aterial f6sil para corroborar las afinidades filogeneticas de esta paloi;na, basandonos en el .carpometacarpo, proponemos una estrech!i,relaci6n tentativa con el clado que incluye la Paloma Manumea Didunculus strigirostris, las guras _{_tres e�cies vivieIJ_t�d�i genera Goura), y la View publication stats.