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Xenorhynchopsis minor De Vis, 1906

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Australia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

De Vis, Charles W. (1906). A contribution to the knowledge of the extinct avifauna of Australia. Annals of the Queensland Museum 6: 3-25.

 

Other references:

Rich, P. V., Van Tets, G. F., Rich, T. H. V., and McEvey, A. R. (1987). The Pliocene and Quaternary flamingoes of Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25(1): 207-225.

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)]

 

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