The bearded honeyeaters of the New Guinea highlands are in two widely separated lineages (Beehler and Pratt 2016, Marki et al. 2017, Andersen et al. 2019, Hay et al. 2022) and are hence only convergently similar. Thus, both English and scientific names of Sooty Melidectes Melidectes fuscus including its subspecies Melidectes fuscus occidentalis and Melidectes fuscus fuscus; Short-bearded Melidectes Melidectes nouhuysi; and Long-bearded Melidectes Melidectes princeps change to Sooty Honeyeater Melionyx fuscus; Short-bearded Honeyeater Melionyx nouhuysi; and Long-bearded Honeyeater Melionyx princeps.
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.
