Nyctanassa carcinocatactes Olson & Wingate, 2006

Bemuda Islands night heron, Crab-eating night-heron

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene; 1610's (Kittelberger et al., 2024); after 1612?; 1623 (Tyrberg, 2009:72)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Bermuda

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Holotype: USNM 326181

Type locality: "Bermuda, Hamilton Parish, Devils' Sinkhole, 32o20'20.9"N, 64o42'24.5"W"

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Olson, Storrs L. and Wingate, David B. (2006). A new species of night-heron (Ardeidae: Nyctanassa) from Quaternary deposits on Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119(2): 326-337.

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2014). Nyctanassa carcinocatactes. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 July 2014.

BirdLife International. (2017). Nyctanassa carcinocatactes (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T62286255A119207935. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T62286255A119207935.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020) Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA

Hume, Julian Pender. (In Press, 2023). Osteological and historical data on extinct island night herons (Aves: Ardeidae), with special reference to Ascension Island, the Mascarenes and Bonin Islands. Geobios. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.01.009

Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.

Kittelberger, Kyle D., Tanner, Colby J., Buxton, Amy N., Prewett, Amira and Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı. (2024). Correlates of avian extinction timing around the world since 1500 CE. Avian Research 15: 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100213 [Supplementary data (List of 216 taxa)]

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.

Wingate, David B. (1982). Successful Reintroduction of the Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron as a Nesting Resident on Bermuda. Colonial Waterbirds 5: 104-115. [Abstract]

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/6383/bermuda-night-heron

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