Mareca strepera couesi (Streets, 1876:46)
Coues' gadwall, Washington Island gadwall
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Chaulelasmus couesi Streets, 1876:46 (original combination); Anas strepera couesi (Streets, 1876:46)
Regarded as "doubtfully distinct" by (Hume & Walters, 2012). Generic placement here follows that suggested by (Gonzalez et al., 2009).
Conservation Status
Invalid?
Last record: January 1874
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Teraina, Kiribati (= Washington Island = New York Island)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from two immature specimens, 1 male and 1 female.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Streets, Thomas H. (1876). Description of a new duck from Washington Island. Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club 1(2): 46-47.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Anas strepera. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 28 January 2013.
Carboneras, C. (1992). Family Anatidae (Ducks, Geese and Swans). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 1: Ostrich to Ducks (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and J. Sargatal eds). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Gonzalez, J., Düttman, H., and Wink, M. (2009). Phylogenetic Relationships Based on Two Mitochondrial Genes and Hybridization Patterns in Anatidae, J. Zool. 279(3): 310-318.
Greenway, J. C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. Dover Publications, New York.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
Ripley, Sidney Dillon. (1943). Pacific Waterfowl. The Avicultural Magazine ser. 5. 8(3): 67-70.
Szabo, J.K., Khwaja, N., Garnett, S.T., Butchart, S.H.M. (2012). Global Patterns and Drivers of Avian Extinctions at the Species and Subspecies Level. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47080.
Thibault, Jean-Claude and Cibois, Alice. (2017). Birds of Eastern Polynesia. A Biogeographic Atlas. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Wetmore, Alexander. (1925). The Coues Gadwall Extinct. Condor 27(1): 36.
Young, H. Glyn, Tonge, Simon J. and Hume, Julian Pender. (1996). Review of Holocene wildfowl extinctions. Wildfowl 47: 167-181.