Gymnogyps varonai Arredondo, 1971
Cuban condor, Cóndor Cubano
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Antillovultur varonai Arredondo, 1971
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene
Distribution
Cuba
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Arredondo, O. (1971). Nuevo género y especie de ave fósil (Accipitriformes: Vulturidae) del Pleistoceno de Cuba. Mem. Soc. Cienc. Nat. La Salle 31(90): 309-323.
Other references:
Arredondo O and Olson SL (1976) The great predatory birds of the Pleistocene of Cuba. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 27, 169–187.
Iturralde Vinent, M.A.; MacPhee, R.D.E.; Díaz Franco, S.; Rojas Consuegra, W.; Lomba, A. (2000). Las Breas de San Felipe, a quaternary fossiliferous asphalt seep near Martí (Matanzas Province, Cuba). Caribbean journal of science 36 (3-4): 300-313.
Olson, Storrs L. (1978). Gill, F. B., ed. A Paleontological Perspective of West Indian Birds and Mammals. Zoogeography in the Caribbean. The 1975 Leidy Medal Symposium. pp. 99-117.
Orihuela, Johanset. (2019). An annotated list of late Quaternary extinct birds of Cuba. Ornitología Neotropical 30: 57-67.
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)]
Suárez, William. (2000). CONTRIBUCIÓN AL CONOCIMIENTO DEL ESTATUS GENÉRICO DEL CÓNDOR EXTINTO (CICONIIFORMES: VULTURIDAE) DEL CUATERNARIO CUBANO. Ornitologia
Neotropical 11: 109-122.
Suárez, William. (2020). The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba. Zootaxa 4780(1): 1-53. [Abstract]
Suárez, William. (2022). Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142(1): 10-74. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3
Suárez, William and Emslie, Steven D. (2003). New fossil material with a redescription of the extinct condor Gymnogyps varonai (Arredondo 1971) (Aves: Vulturidae) from the Quaternary of Cuba. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(1): 29-37.
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.