Hypsipetes cowlesi Hume, 2015:258
Rodrigues bulbul, Rodrigues merle
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hypsipetes sp. nov. Cowles 1987:99; Hypsipetes rodericanus Strahm 1989:39 (nomen nudum)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Rodrigues, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: FLMR 273 (cranium)
Type locality: "Rodrigues Island, Mascarene Islands, south-western Indian Ocean. Collected in 1999 by S.E.S.C.R. in Caverne Bambara I (19°45.273′ S, 63°22.132′ E), Plaine Corail."
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References
Original scientific description:
Hume, Julian Pender. (2015). A new subfossil bulbul (Aves: Passerines: Pycnonotidae) from Rodrigues Island, Mascarenes, south-western Indian Ocean. Ostrich 86(3): 247-260.
Other references:
Cheke AS (1987) An ecological history of the Mascarene Islands, with particular reference to extinctions and introductions of land vertebrates. In Diamond AW, ed., Studies of Mascarene Island Birds, pp. 5–89. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Cheke, Anthony S. (2013). Extinct birds of the Mascarenes and Seychelles - a review of the causes of extinction in the light of an important new publication on extinct birds. Phelsuma 21: 4-19.
Cheke, Anthony S. and Hume, Julian Pender. (2008). Lost Land of the Dodo: An Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 464 pp.
Cowles, Graham S. (1987). The fossil record, pp. 90-100. In: Diamond, A. W. (ed.). Studies of Mascarene Island Birds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Hume, Julian Pender. (2013). A synopsis of the pre-human avifauna of the Mascarene Islands, pp. 195-237. In: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien.
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)]
Strahm, W. (1989). Plant Red Data book for Rodrigues. Königstein: Koeltz Scientific Books.
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