Amazona vittata gracilipes Ridgway, 1915:106

Culebra Island amazon, Culebran amazon (proposed), Culebran parrot (proposed), Culebran red-fronted amazon (proposed)

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Amazona vittata gracileps Ridgway, 1915:106 (used by Day, 1981:78)

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1912 (Benstead et al. 2011; BirdLife International, 2012)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Culebra Island, Puerto Rico

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

At least 3 specimens exist (Forshaw, 1989).

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Ridgway, Robert. (1915). [description of Amazona vittata gracilipes]. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 28: 106.

Other references:

Benstead, P., Bird, J., Butchart, S., Calvert, R., Isherwood, I., Symes, A., Temple, H. and Wege, D. (2011). Species Factsheet: Amazona vittata. BirdLife International, Cambridge.

BirdLife International. (2012). Amazona vittata. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 16 March 2013.

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

Ehrlich, Paul R., Dobkin, David S. and Wheye, Darryl. (1992). Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 259 pp.

Forshaw, Joseph M. (1989). Parrots of the World. London: Macmillan.

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)]

Williams, Mathew I. and Steadman, David W. (2001). The historic and prehistoric distribution of parrots (Psittacidae) in the West Indies, pp. 175-189. In: Woods, Charles A. and Sergile, Florence E. (eds.). Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.

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