Morton L. Isler

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Morton Lee Isler (born July 27, 1929 in New York ) is an American ornithologist . He works closely with his wife Phyllis Reynolds Isler (born December 22, 1931).

Life

The Islers have devoted themselves completely to ornithology since 1981. You are a research fellow in the bird department of the Smithsonian Institution .

Her research interests concern the reconstruction of geographical patterns of speciation and examination of species boundaries within the neotropical families of the ant birds (Thamnophilidae) and the ant pittas (Grallariidae), whereby they map the development of song characteristics and behavioral and morphological data in connection with molecular phylogenies, developed by Robert Terry Chesser and staff at Louisiana State University , the Field Museum and the Universidad de los Andes ( Bogotá ).

In 1987 Morton and Phyllis Isler published the book The Tanagers: Natural history, distribution, and identification , which is one of the standard works on the Tangaren .

In 1997, Morton Isler, Phyllis Isler and Bret M. Whitney described the subspecies Thamnophilus stictocephalus parkeri of the tapajos anthristus . In 2002 they described the monochrome ant bird ( Percnostola arenarum ). In 2006 Isler and Robb T. Brumfield established the genus Epinecrophylla from the ant bird family. In 2013 Isler and his colleagues Gustavo A. Bravo and Robb T. Brumfield established the new monotypic genus Aprositornis for the two-color ant bird , which was formerly in the genus Myrmeciza . In the same year he and Bret M. Whitney described the subspecies Epinecrophylla amazonica dentei of the Amazon ant hatchler .

Dedication names

In 2012, Gustavo A. Bravo, Terry Chesser and Robb T. Brumfield honored Morton and Phyllis Isler in the epithet of the genus Isleria . In 2016, Kevin Burns and his colleagues established the genus Islerothraupis .

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isler, ML, Lacerda, DR, Isler, PR, Hackett, SJ, Rosenberg, KV & Brumfield, RT (2006). Epinecrophylla, a new genus of antwrens (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 119 (4): 522-527.
  2. ↑ Morton L. Isler, Gustavo A. Bravo, Robb T. Brumfield: Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data. Zootaxa 3717, 2013, pp. 469-497.
  3. ↑ Bravo, Gustavo A., Chesser, Terry & Brumfield, Robb T., 2012: Isleria, a new genus of answer (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) , Zootaxa 3195, pp. 61-67
  4. ↑ Burns, Kevin J., Unitt, Philip & Mason, Nicholas A., 2016, A genus-level classification of the family Thraupidae (Class Aves: Order Passeriformes), Zootaxa 4088 (3), pp. 329–354
personal data
SURNAME Isler, Morton L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isler, Morton Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH new York