Vorombe titan Andrews, 1894
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Aepyornis titan Andrews 1894:18; Aepyornis ingens Milne-Edwards and Grandidier, 1894:124
Conservation Status
Extinct or invalid (synonym) (see Grealy et al., 2023)
Last record: Holocene
Distribution
Madagascar
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Andrews, C. W. (1894). A new species of Aepyornis (AE. titan). Geol. Mag. 1: 18-20.
Other references:
Chinsamy, Anusuya et al. (2020). Bone histology yields insights into the biology of the extinct elephant birds (Aepyornithidae) from Madagascar. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa013 [Abstract]
Grealy, Alicia et al. (2023). Molecular exploration of fossil eggshell uncovers hidden lineage of giant extinct bird. Nature Communications 14: 914. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36405-3
Hansford, James P. and Turvey, Samuel T. (2018). Unexpected diversity within the extinct elephant birds (Aves: Aepyornithidae) and a new identity for the world's largest bird. R. Soc. Open Sci. 5: 181295.
Hansford, James P. and Turvey, Samuel T. (2020). Correction to ‘Unexpected diversity within the extinct elephant birds (Aves: Aepyornithidae) and a new identity for the world's largest bird’. R. Soc. Open Sci. 7: 201358. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201358
Rothschild, Lionel Walter. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 223-224]
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)]
Torres, Christopher R. and Clarke, Julia A. (2018). Nocturnal giants: evolution of the sensory ecology in elephant birds and other palaeognaths inferred from digital brain reconstructions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1540 [Abstract]