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Aquila sp. nov. 'Madagascar' #1

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Aquila undescribed large species (Tyrberg, 2009:75)

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

 

Distribution

Madagascar

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Goodman, Steven M. (1994). The enigma of antipredator behavior in lemurs: Evidence of a large extinct eagle on Madagascar. International Journal of Primatology 15(1): 129-134. [Abstract]

Goodman, S. M. (1999). Holocene bird subfossils from the sites of Ampasambazimba, Antsirabe and Ampoza, Madagascar:Changes in the avifauna of south central Madagascar over the past few millennia. In: Adams, N.J. & Slotow, R.H. (eds) Proc. 22 Int. Ornithol. Congr., Durban: 3071-3083. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.

Goodman, Steven M. and Rakotozafy, Lucien M. A. (1995). Evidence for the existence of two species of Aquila on Madagascar during the Quaternary / Évidence de l'existence de deux espèces du genre Aquila à Madagascar durant leQuaternaire. Geobios 28(2): 241-246. [Abstract]

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/15817/extinct-aquila-species-madagascar

 

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