Aquila sp. nov. 'Madagascar' #2

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Aquila undescribed small species (Tyrberg, 2009:75)

Conservation Status

Extinct

Distribution

Madagascar

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Goodman, Steven M. (1994). The enigma of antipredator behavior in lemurs: Evidence of a large extinct eagle on Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology 15(1): 129-134. [Abstract]

Goodman, S. M. (1999). Holocene bird subfossils from the sites of Ampasambazimba, Antsirabe and Ampoza, Madagascar:Changes in the avifauna of south central Madagascar over the past few millennia. In: Adams, N.J. & Slotow, R.H. (eds) Proc. 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr., Durban: 3071-3083. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.

Goodman, Steven M. and Rakotozafy, Lucien M. A. (1995). Evidence for the existence of two species of Aquila on Madagascar during the Quaternary / Évidence de l'existence de deux espèces du genre Aquila à Madagascar durant leQuaternaire. Geobios 28(2): 241-246. [Abstract]

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.

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