Ara gossei
Taxonomy [top]
| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | PSITTACIFORMES | PSITTACIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Ara gossei | |||
| Species Authority: | Rothschild, 1905 | |||
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Assessment Information [top]
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Extinct ver 3.1 | ||||||||||||
| Year Published: | 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Assessor/s: | BirdLife International | ||||||||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Bird, J., Butchart, S. | ||||||||||||
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Geographic Range [top]
| Range Description: | Ara gossei is known only from the work of Gosse in 1847 based on "specimen shot about 1765, by Mr Odell" in the mountains of Hanover Parish, about 10 miles east of Lucea, Jamaica2. |
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Habitat and Ecology [top]
| Habitat and Ecology: | Nothing is known, although it is likely to have been typical of the genus. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
Threats [top]
| Major Threat(s): | It was presumably hunted to extinction around the end of the 18th century. |
Bibliography [top]
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Clark, A. H. 1905. The Greater Antillean macaws. The Auk 22: 345-348. Rothschild, W. 1905. Notes on extinct parrots from the West Indies. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 16: 13-15. Wetherbee, D. K. 1985. The extinct Cuban and Hispaniolan Macaws (Ara: Psittacidae), and description of a new species Ara cubensis. Caribbean Journal of Science 21: 169-175. |
| Citation: | BirdLife International 2008. Ara gossei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2012. |
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