Antigone cubensis (Fischer & Stephan, 1971)
Cuban flightless crane, Grulla Cubana
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Grus cubensis Fischer & Stephan, 1971
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Cuba
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Fischer, K. and Stephan, B. (1971) Ein flugunfähiger kranich (Grus cubensis n. sp.) aus dem Pleistozän vom Kuba-Eine osteologie der familie kranich (Gruidae). Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, MathemathischNaturwissenschaftliche Reihe 20: 541-592.
Other references:
Fischer K (1968) Ein K ugunfähiger Kranich aus dem Pleistozän von Cuba. Monatschrift für Ornithologie und Vivariekunde (Ausgabe A “Der Falke”) 15, 270–271.
Olson, Storrs L. (1978). A paleontological perspective of West Indian birds and mammals. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Special Publication 13: 99-117.
Olson, S.L. & James, H.F. (1991) Ornithological Monographs, 1–88.
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. (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
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.