Santiago Claramunt

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Santiago Javier Claramunt Tammaro (born June 24, 1975 in Montevideo ), commonly called Santiago Claramunt , is a Uruguayan ornithologist at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto , Canada . His research focus is the neotropical family of potter birds (Furnariidae).

Life

Claramunt is the son of Roberto Claramunt and Amalia Tammaro. In 1992, he joined a group of young naturalists at the non-profit Centro de Estudios de Ciencias Naturales (CECN, Center for Scientific Studies), with whom he participated in field studies to assess biological stocks and collect small vertebrates. His interest in birds developed during these excursions. In 1997 he received a position at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Uruguay from the Ministry of Education and Culture . He first made guided tours in the exhibition halls and then worked on the bird collection under the direction of Juan Cuello (* 1933). He then studied at the Universidad de la República , where he obtained his Licenciado in the life sciences in 1999, specializing in evolution . One of his most influential mentors was Enrique P. Lessa (* 1956), with whom he studied evolutionary biology , including molecular techniques and cladistics . Between 1999 and 2003 he continued his work at the museum and also worked on a project to speciation in freshwater fish in the laboratory of Graciela García .

In 2003 Claramunt moved to Baton Rouge to begin his doctoral studies at Louisiana State University . In 2010 he was with the dissertation Testing Models of Biological Diversification: Morphological Evolution and cladogenesis in the Neotropical Furnariidae (Aves: Passeriformes) under the direction of James V. Remsen and Robb T. Brumfield for Ph.D. PhD in life sciences. From 2010 to 2012, he conducted research with a Chapman - postdoctoral scholarship at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City . Since 2012 he has been the assistant curator of ornithology at the Royal Ontario Museum. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto and a research fellow at the American Museum of Natural History.

Claramunt's research focuses on bird systematics and the reconstruction of the evolutionary history of birds. He examines the biodiversity of birds using macroevolutionary approaches as well as the influence of speciation, extinction , phenotypic evolution and distribution. In general, Claramunt focuses on the pottery bird family as an example of continental adaptive expansion. His other research interests include studies of the Uruguayan avifauna , the fossil birds of Uruguay and the trophic ecology of the owls .

Claramunt was involved in the first descriptions of the genera Certhiasomus , Geocerthia , Pseudasthenes , and Drymotoxeres . In 2005 he described the fossil pottery bird species Pseudoseisuropsis cuelloi from the Pleistocene of Paraguay. In 2018 he was part of the first team describing the chaffinch subspecies Fringilla coelebs bakeri from Gran Canaria .

Claramunt is a member of the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society .

Claramunt has been married to the Peruvian zoologist Adriana Bravo, who conducts research at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History, since 2007. The couple have a daughter.

literature

  • Santiago Claramunt: Testing Models of Biological Diversification: Morphological Evolution and Cladogenesis in the Neotropical Furnariidae (Aves: Passeriformes) Dissertation at Louisiana State University, 2010 (with a brief CV on page 131)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Derryberry, Santiago Claramunt, R. Terry Chesser, Alexandre Aleixo, Joel Cracraft, Robert G. Moyle, Robb T. Brumfield: Certhiasomus, a new genus of woodcreeper (Aves: Passeriformes: Dendrocolaptidae). Zootaxa 2416, 2010, pp. 44-50
  2. ↑ R. Terry Chesser, Santiago Claramunt, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Robb T. Brumfield: Geocerthia, a new genus of terrestrial ovenbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae) Zootaxa 2213, 2009, pp. 64-68
  3. ↑ Elizabeth Derryberry, Santiago Claramunt, Kelly E. O'Quin, Alexandre Aleixo, R. Terry Chesser, JV Remsen Jr., Robb T. Brumfield: Pseudasthenes, a new genus of ovenbird (Aves: Passeriformes: Furnariidae). Zootaxa 2416, 2010, pp. 61-68
  4. ↑ Santiago Claramunt, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, R. Terry Chesser, Alexandre Aleixo, Robb T. Brumfield: Polyphyly of Campylorhamphus, and Description of a New Genus for C. pucherani (Dendrocolaptinae) - Polifilia de Campylorhamphus y la Descripción de un Nuevo Género para C. pucherani (Dendrocolaptinae). The Auk, Vol. 127, No. 2, April 2010, pp. 430-439
  5. ↑ Santiago Claramunt, Andrés Rinderknecht: A new fossil furnariid from the Pleistocene of Uruguay, with remarks on nasal type, cranial kinetics, and relationships of the extinct genus Pseudoseisuropsis. The Condor 107 (1), 2005
  6. ↑ Juan Carlos Illera, Juan Carlos Rando, Eduardo Rodriguez ‐ Exposito, Mariano Hernández, Santiago Claramunt, Aurelio Martín: Acoustic, genetic, and morphological analyzes of the Canarian common chaffinch complex Fringilla coelebs ssp. reveals cryptic diversification. Journal of Avian Biology 49 (12), 2018, pp. 1-12
personal data
SURNAME Claramunt, Santiago
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Claramunt Tammaro, Santiago Javier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo