Madagascar goose
| Madagascar goose | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Skull and bones of the Madagascar goose ( Alopochen sirabensis ) |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Alopochen sirabensis | ||||||||||||
| ( Andrews , 1897) |
The Madagascar goose ( Alopochen sirabensis ) is an extinct species of bird from the demi-geese subfamily . It was endemic to Madagascar . Some authors suggest that it was just a subspecies of the Mauritius goose , which was also extinct .
The species Alopochen sirabensis was already described in 1897 by the British paleontologist Charles William Andrews using subfossil bones . The age of the animal's bone remnants was determined in 1997 using accelerator mass spectrometry . Accordingly, the bird species only died out in the Holocene . The dating of the bone remains is 1380 (+/- 90 years). The reasons for the extinction are unknown.
literature
- Kálmán Lambrecht: Handbook of Palaeornithology. Borntraeger brothers, Berlin 1933.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonProperties.aspx?id=647506&tree=0.1
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Samuel T. Turvey: Holocene Extinctions, 2009, ISBN 0199535094 (page 67)
