Heads up: Some or all of the identifications affected by
this split may have been replaced with identifications of Chlorophonia. This
happens when we can't automatically assign an identification to one of the
output taxa.
Review identifications of Chlorophonia musica 1289369
Puerto Rican Euphonia Chlorophonia sclateri andLesser Antillean Euphonia C. flavifrons are split from Hispaniolan (formerly Antillean) Euphonia C. musica (Clements 2007:627)
Summary: The Caribbean avifauna increases by two attractively plumaged species with the recognition that Puerto Rican Euphonia and Lesser Antillean Euphonia are distinct species from Hispaniolan Euphonia.
Details: The Chlorophonia musica complex (sensu Storer 1970) comprised nine subspecies of which, due to earlier taxonomic changes, only three now remain in the Antillean complex C. musica. These three, the Puerto Rican C. sclateri, Hispaniolan C. musica, and the Lesser Antillean C. flavifrons, were all originally described as separate species, and male plumages differ markedly. del Hoyo and Collar (2016) considered each of these separate species on the basis of morphology. However, no genetic comparisons appear to have been made for these three, and vocalizations are at least broadly similar so far as known (Mason et al. 2022, https://americanornithology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-B.pdf). Nevertheless, WGAC, NACC (Chesser et al. 2023), Gill et al. (2023, IOC v.13.2), and Clements et al. (2023) align with del Hoyo and Collar (2016) in now considering each of these taxa separate species based on their morphological differences that are equivalent to or exceed those exhibited by other euphonia species.
Clements, J. F., P. C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Link)
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.