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Troglodytes aedon martinicensis Sclater, 1866

Martinique house wren, Martinique wren

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Troglodytes musculus martinicensis Sclater, 1866

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1886 (specimen) (Knox & Walters, 1994:196); c.1900 (Kroodsma & Brewer, 2005)

 

Distribution

Martinique

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=2]RMNH 110.001[/url]

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

(Sclater,PL) 1866 Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.321


Other references:

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

Jouanin, Christian. (1962). Inventaire des oiseaux éteints ou en voie d’extinction conservés au Muséum de Paris. Terre et Vie 109: 275-301.

Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 196]

Kroodsma, D. and Brewer, D. (2005). Family Troglodytidae (Wrens). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 10: Cuckoo-shrikes to Thrushes (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott and D.A. Christie eds). Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.

Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]

 

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