Mauritius night heron
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Drawing of subfossil bones of the Mauritius night heron |
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| Nycticorax mauritianus | ||||||||||
| ( A. Newton & Gadow , 1893) |
The Mauritius night heron ( Nycticorax mauritianus ) is an extinct endemic night heron of Mauritius . He is known only from seven fragments that were found in Mare aux Songes . These fragments consisted of the skull , the pelvis , the ulna , the raven bone , the tarsometatarsus and the spoke . Today only the raven bone and the tarsometatarsus remain. This species was first described in 1893 by Alfred Newton and Hans Gadow of the University of Cambridge , who indicated the tarsometatarsus with a length of 81 to 87 millimeters. It was probably first mentioned in a travelogue by François Leguat from 1693, and its extinction is believed to be in the late 17th century.
literature
- ↑ James Cowan Greenway (1967): Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World
Web links
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- Nycticorax mauritianus in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed January 31 of 2009.