Columbicola extinctus (Malcomson, 1937:55)
Passenger pigeon chewing louse
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Mallophaga extinctus Malcomson, 1937:55 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Last record: before c. 1:00PM, 1 September 1914 (Malcomson, 1937)
Rediscovered before: 4 January 1999 (Clayton & Price, 1999:685)
Previously thought to be Extinct (Stork & Lyal, 1993).
Distribution & Habitat
Central America, South America & North America
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Malcomson, R. O. (1937). Two new Mallophaga. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 30(1): 53-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/30.1.53
Other references:
Clayton, Dale H. and Price, Roger D. (1999). Taxonomy of the New World Columbicola (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from the Columbiformes (Aves), with descriptions of five new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 92(5): 675-685. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/92.5.675
Dunn, Robert R. (2009). Coextinction: anecdotes, models, and speculation, pp. 167-180. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Koh, Lian Pin, Dunn, Robert R., Sodhi, Navjot S., Colwell, Robert K., Proctor, Heather C. and Smith, Vincent S. (2004). Species Co-Extinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis. Science 305(5690): 1632-1634. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1101101 [Supplementary Material]
Price, Roger D., Clayton, Dale H. and Adams, Richard J. (2000). Pigeon lice down under: taxonomy of Australian Campanulotes (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae), with a description of C. durdeni n. sp. J. Parasitol. 86: 948-950. https://doi.org/10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[0948:PLDUTO]2.0.CO;2
Stork, Nigel E. and Lyal, Christopher H. C. (1993). Extinction or 'co-extinction' rates? Nature 366: 307. https://doi.org/10.1038/366307a0