Scolopax brachycarpa Takano & Steadman, 2015
Hispaniolan woodcock (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Holocene
Distribution
Hispaniola
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Takano, Oona M. and Steadman, David W. (2015). A new species of Woodcock (Aves: Scolopacidae: Scolopax) from Hispaniola, West Indies. Zootaxa 4032(1): 117-126. [Abstract]
Other references:
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)]
Steadman, David W. (2013). A late-Holocene bird community from Hispaniola: Refining the chronology of vertebrate extinction in the West Indies. The Holocene, Published online before print March 12, 2013, doi: 10.1177/0959683613479683 [Abstract]
Steadman, David W. and Takano, Oona M. (2016). A new extinct species of Snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Gallinago) from the West Indies. Zootaxa 4109(3): 345-358. [Abstract]