The presence of two undescribed cisticola warblers in the marshes of the Kilombero floodplain in central Tanzania has been known since the 1980s and these putative new species have been illustrated in field guides on African birds, although with no formal name. Here we name both species, based on two museum specimens collected in 1961 and recently detected in a museum collection. We use these specimens to provide formal descriptions of each form and, using DNA sequence data extracted from these specimens, we place them in a broad phylogenetic framework for the genus
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- Award ID(s):
- 1916263
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10484990
- Publisher / Repository:
- Subterranean Biology
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- Journal Name:
- Subterranean Biology
- Volume:
- 48
- ISSN:
- 1768-1448
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- 1 to 49
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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