Cygnus equitum Bate, 1916
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Malta & Sicily
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bate, D. M. A. (1916). On a small collection of vertebrate remains from the Har Dalam cavern, Malta; with note on a new species of the genus Cygnus. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 28: 421-430.
Other references:
Mlíkovský, Jiří. (2002). Cenozoic Birds of the World: Part 1: Europe. Praha, Czech Republic: Ninox Press.
Northcote, E. Marjorie. (1988). An extinct 'swan-goose' from the Pleistocene of Malta. Palaeontology 31(3): 725-740.
Pavia M (2000) Le avifaune pleistoceniche dell’Italia meridionale. Tesi Università di Torino Scienze de la Terra, Torino.
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.