Geotrygon larva (Wetmore, 1920:79)
Puerto Rican quail dove, Porto Rican quail-dove, Wetmore's quail-dove
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Oreopelia larva Wetmore, 1920 (original combination); Oreopela larva Wetmore, 1920:79 [orth. error]; Oreoepeleia larva Wetmore, 1920:79 [orth. error] (used by Wetmore, 1922)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Puerto Rico (=Porto Rico)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wetmore, Alexander. (1920). Five New Species of Birds from Cave Deposits In Porto Rico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 33: 77-82.
Other references:
Carlson, L. A. and Steadman, David W. (2009). Examining temporal differences in faunal exploitation at two ceramic age sites in Puerto Rico. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 4(2): 207-222.
Faurby, Søren, Matthews, Tom J., Triantis, Kostas A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2026). Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography 2026: e08267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08267
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Matthews, Thomas J., Triantis, Kostas A., Wayman, Joseph P., Martin, Thomas E., Hume, Julian P., Cardoso, Pedro, Faurby, Søren, Mendenhall, Chase D., Dufour, Paul, Rigal, François, Cooke, Rob, Whittaker, Robert J., Pigot, Alex L., Thébaud, Christophe, Jørgensen, Maria Wagner, Benavides, Eva, Soares, Filipa C., Ulrich, Werner, Kubota, Yasuhiro, Sadler, Jon P., Tobias, Joseph A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2024). The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions. Science 386(6717): 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk7898 [Supplementary Materials; Dryad dataset; Zenodo codeset]
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)]
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.
Wetmore, Alexander. (1922). Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico. Bulletin American Museum of Natural History 46: 297-333.
Wetmore, Alexander. (1923). An additional record for the extinct Porto Rican quail-dove. The Auk 40(2): 324.
Wetmore, Alexander. (1927). The birds of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Wetmore, Alexander. (1938). Bird Remains from the West Indies. Auk 55(1): 51-55.