Siphonorhis daiquiri Olson, 1985

Cuban siphonorhis, Cuban pauraque, Torico Cubano

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene

Distribution

Cuba

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: USNM 336506 ("distal part of right tarsometatarsus")

Type locality: " "Cueva de Los Indios" (see Anthony 1919), on a hillside overlooking the roadstead ofthe former port ofDaiquiri, on the southern coast ofwhat is now the province of Santiago de Cuba (formerly part of Oriente Province), about 22 km ESE of the city of Santiago de Cuba (19''54.8'N, 75°38.6'W)"

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References

Original scientific description:

Olson, Storrs L. (1985). A new species of Siphonorhis from Quaternary cave deposits in Cuba (Aves: Caprimulgidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 98: 526-532.

Other references:

Jiménez Vázquez O, C ondis MM, and Elvis García C (2005) Vertebrados post-glaciales en un residuario fósil de Tyto alba scopoli (Aves: Tytonidae) en el occidente de Cuba. Revista Mexicana de Mastozoología 9: 85-112.

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

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. (2000). Fossil evidence for the occurrence of Cuban Poorwill Siphonorhis daiquiri in western Cuba. Cotinga 14: 66-68. ["Fósil evidence for the ocurrente of Cuban Poorwill Siphonorhis daiquiri in western Cuba"]

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. 

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