Xenicibis xympithecus Olson & Steadman, 1977:449

Jamaican flightless ibis, Clubbed-wing ibis

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Distribution

Jamaica

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Olson, Storrs L. and Steadman, David W. (1977). A new genus of flightless ibis (Threskiornithidae) and other fossil birds from cave deposits in Jamaica. [i]Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington[/i] [b]90(2)[/b]: 447-457.

Other references:

Acevedo-González, M. and Arredondo, Oscar. (1982). Paleozoogeografía y geología del Cuaternario de Cuba, características y distribución geográfica de los depósitos con restos de vertebrados. IX Jornada Científica del Instituto de Geología y Paleontología, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, pág. 59-84.

Arredondo, Oscar (1984). Sinopsis de las aves halladas en depósitos fosilíferos pleisto-holocénicos de Cuba. Reporte de Investigación del Instituto de Zoología (in Spanish) 17: 1-35.

Longrich, Nicholas R. and Olson, Storrs L. (2011). The bizarre wing of the Jamaican flightless ibis Xenicibis xympithecus: a unique vertebrate adaptation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278(1716): 2333-2337.

D.A. McFarlane, J. Lundberg, and A. G. Fincham. (2002). A late Quaternary paleoecological record from caves of southern Jamaica, West Indies. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 64(2): 117-125.

Morgan GS (1993) Quaternary land mammals of Jamaica. In Wright RM and Robinson E, eds, Biostratigraphy of Jamaica, pp. 417–442. Geological Society of America, Denver.

Olson, Storrs L. and Steadman, David W. (1979). The humerus of Xenicibis, the extinct flightless ibis of Jamaica. [i]Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington[/i] [b]92[/b](1): 23-27.

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)]

Suárez, William. (2001). Deletion of the flightless ibis Xenicibis from the fossil record of Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 37 (1–2): 109-110.

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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