Siphonorhis americana Linnaeus, 1758

Jamaican pauraque, Jamaican pauraqué, Jamaican poorwill

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Siphonorhis americanus Linnaeus, 1758

Conservation Status

Missing or extinct

Last record: 1860

IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)

Distribution

Jamaica

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

UP 68055 (Right tarsometatarsi)

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Linnaeus, Carolus. (1758). Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis. Stockholm, Sweden.

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2012a). Species factsheet: Siphonorhis americana. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 19/08/2012.

BirdLife International. (2012b). Siphonorhis americana. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 August 2012.

BirdLife International. 2020. Siphonorhis americana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T22689738A178420953. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22689738A178420953.en. Accessed on 06 July 2022.

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.

Gosse, P. H. (1847). The birds ofJamaica. London, John van Voorst. 447 pp.

Olson, Storrs L. and Steadman, David W. (1977). A new genus of flightless ibis (Threskiornithidae) and other fossil birds from cave deposits in Jamaica. [i]Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington[/i] [b]90(2)[/b]: 447-457.

Tobias, Joseph A., Butchart, Stuart H. M. and Collar, Nigel J. (2006). Lost and found: a gap analysis for the Neotropical avifauna. Neotropical Birding [2006]: 4-22.

www.scscb.org/working_groups/Actions/species-accounts/siphonorhis-americana.doc?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=2373&m=0

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/6340/siphonorhis-americanus-jamaican-pauraque

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