Grus latipes Wetmore, 1960
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Baeopteryx latipes Wetmore, 1960
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Bermuda
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wetmore, Alexander. (1960). Pleistocene birds in Bermuda. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 140(2): 1-11.
Other references:
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)]
Olson, Storrs L., Wingate, D. B., Hearty, P. J. and Grady, F. V. (2005). Prodromus of Vertebrate Paleontology and Geochronology of Bermuda. In: Alcover, J. A. and Bover, P. (eds.). Proceedings of the International Symposium “Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach”. Monografies de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears, 12: 219-232.
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)]