Ciconia lydekkeri Ameghino, 1891

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Prociconia lydekkeri Ameghino, 1891; Jabiru mycteria Wetmore, 1928; Ciconia maltha (Howard, 1942)

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

Distribution

Cuba & South America

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Ameghino, F. (1891). Enumeración de las aves fósiles de la República Argentina. Revista Argentina de Historia Natural 1: 441-456.

Other references:

Agnolin, F. (2009) El registro fósil de Ciconia lydekkeri Ameghino, 1891 en el Pleistoceno de Sudamérica. Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 45(1): 53-58. [in Spanish]

Nascimento, Rafael and Silveira, Luís Fábio. (2020). The Fossil Birds of Peter Lund. Zootaxa 4743(4): 480-510. [Abstract]

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)]

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.

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