Culebra Island amazon | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Family: | Psittacidae |
Genus: | Amazona |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | A. v. gracilipes
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Trinomial name | |
Amazona vittata gracilipes Ridgway, 1915
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The Culebra Island amazon (Amazona vittata gracilipes), [1] also known as the Culebran Parrot, or the Culebran red-fronted amazon, is an extinct subspecies of the Puerto Rican amazon that was native to Culebra Island, Puerto Rico. [2] The last record of the subspecies was in 1912, which is generally recorded as its extinction date, although scattered individuals may have survived longer on the island. [2] It was first described by Robert Ridgway in 1915, three years after the species approximate extinction. [3] [4]
Culebra Island amazon | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Family: | Psittacidae |
Genus: | Amazona |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | A. v. gracilipes
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Trinomial name | |
Amazona vittata gracilipes Ridgway, 1915
|
The Culebra Island amazon (Amazona vittata gracilipes), [1] also known as the Culebran Parrot, or the Culebran red-fronted amazon, is an extinct subspecies of the Puerto Rican amazon that was native to Culebra Island, Puerto Rico. [2] The last record of the subspecies was in 1912, which is generally recorded as its extinction date, although scattered individuals may have survived longer on the island. [2] It was first described by Robert Ridgway in 1915, three years after the species approximate extinction. [3] [4]