Aquila nipaloides Louchart, Bedetti & Pavia, 2005
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Corsica (France) & Sardinia (Italy)
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Louchart, Antoine, Bedetti, Claudia and Pavia, Marco (2005). A new species of eagle (Aves: Accipitridae) close to the Steppe Eagle,from the Pleistocene of Corsica and Sardinia,France and Italy. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 272(5-6): 121-148.
Other references:
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.