Aidemedia chascax James & Olson, 1991

Oahu Icterid-like gaper, Straight-billed gaper

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Distribution

Oahu, Hawaiian Islands

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: BBM-X 155523

Type locality: "Site 50-Oa-B6-100b, Barbers Point, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands"

Paratypes:

BBM-X 155844

USNM 445814

BBM-X 154918

USNM 255564

USNM 255125

Media

References

Original scientific description:

James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. (1991). Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs No. 46.

Other references:

James, Helen F. (1987). A late Pleistocene avifauna from the island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. L’Évolution des oiseaux d’après le témoignage des fossiles. Table Ronde internationale de CNRS, Lyon-Villeurbanne, 18-21 Sept. 1985. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de Lyon, no. 99 (ed. by C. Mourer-Chauviré), pp. 121-128.

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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