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Chlorostilbon bracei Lawrence, 1877

Brace's emerald

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: July 1877

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Known only from the holotype collected on New Providence Island in 1877 (Graves & Olson, 1987).

 

Distribution

New Providence Island, Bahamas

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Lawrence, G.N. (1877). Descriptions of new species of  birds of the families Trochilidae and Tetraonidae. Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 1: 50-52.

 

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2016). Chlorostilbon bracei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22687333A93148138. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22687333A93148138.en. Accessed on 18 June 2022.

Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.

Graves, Gary R., and, Olson, Storrs L. (1987). Chlorostilbon bracei Lawrence, an extinct species of hummingbird from New Providence Island, Bahamas. The Auk 104: 296-302.

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

Olson, Storrs L. and Hilgartner, W. B. (1982). Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 48: 22-56.

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. 

 

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