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Systematic Biology Advance Access originally published online on October 6, 2009
Systematic Biology 2009 58(6):659-661; doi:10.1093/sysbio/syp071
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© The Author(s) 2009. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the Society of Systematic Biologists. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds

R. Terry Chesser

USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013, USA

E-mail: chessert@si.edu

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds.—Les Christidis and Walter E. Boles. Collingwood, VIC, Australia: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. x+277 pp. ISBN 978-0-643065116. $AU69.95 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-643096028. $AU49.95 (paperback).

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Systematists argue that the importance of our work lies not only in the elucidation of evolutionary relationships, but also in the incorporation of evolutionary information into classifications and the use of these classifications by government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, professional scientists, and others interested in biodiversity. If this is true, and I think that it is, then synthetic publications that make our findings accessible to a wide audience, such as Christidis and Boles’ new Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds, may be among the most significant works that we publish.

Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds is a greatly revised and expanded version of the authors’ The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories (Christidis and Boles 1994), published by the Royal Australian Ornithologists Union. Christidis and Boles are well qualified to translate the latest developments in avian systematics for the nonspecialist world. Both are . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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