Melopyrrha latirostris Steadman & Morgan, 1985
Cayman bullfinch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Quaternary
Distribution
Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: UF 23011
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Steadman, David W. and Morgan, G. S. (1985). A new species of bullfinch (Aves: Emberizinae) from a late Quaternary cave deposit on Cayman Brac, West Indies. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 98: 544-553.
Other references:
Morgan GS (1994) Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands. In Brunt MA and Davies JE, eds, The Cayman Islands: N atural History and Biogeography, pp. 465–508. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
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.