Coturnix gomerae Jaume, McMinn & Alcover, 1993:154

Canary Islands quail, Canary quail, Canaries quail

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Coturnix undescribed sp Milberg & Tyrberg, 1993:242

Conservation Status

Extinct

Distribution

El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gomera, La Palma & Teneriffe, Canary Islands, North Africa

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Jaume, D., Mcminn, M. and Alcover, J. A. (1993). Fossil bird from the Bujero del Silo, La Gomera (Canary Islands), with a description of a new species of Quail (Galliformes: Phasianidae). Boletim do Museu Municipal do Funchal 2: 147-165.

Other references:

Castillo C, Martín-Gonzalez E, and Coello JJ (2001) Small vertebrate taphonomy of La C ueva del Llano, a volcanic cave on Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain). Palaeoecological implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 166, 277–291.

Milberg, Per and Tyrberg, Tommy. (1993). Naïve birds and noble savages - a review of man-caused prehistoric extinctions of island birds. Ecography 16: 229-250.

Rando JC and Lopez M (1996) Un nuevo yacimiento de vertebrados fosiles en Tenerife (Islas Canarias). Proceedings 7th International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology 1, 171–173.

Rando, J. C., López, M. and Jiménez, M. C. (1997). Bird remains from the archaeological site of Guinea (El Hierro, Canary Islands). Int. J. Osteoarchaeol. 7: 298-302. [Abstract]

Rando, J. C. and Perera, M. A. (1994). Primeros datos de ornitofagia entre los aborígenes de Fuerteventura (islas Canarias). Archaeofauna 3: 13-19.

Rando, J. C. et al. (1996). Los restos de aves del yacimiento arqueológico de “El Tendal” (La Palma, Islas Canarias). El Museo Canario 51: 87-102.

Sánchez Marco, A. (2010). New data and an overview of the past avifaunas from the Canary Islands. Ardeola 57(1): 13-40.

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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