Culebra Island amazon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Amazona
Species:
A. vittata
Subspecies:
A. v. gracilipes
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]

References

  1. ↑ "Culebra Island Parrot (Subspecies Amazona vittata gracilipes)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  2. 1 2 "Amazona vittata gracilipes (Culebra Island amazon, Culebran amazon, Culebran parrot, Culebran red-fronted amazon) - The Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database". recentlyextinctspecies.com. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
  3. ↑ "Amazona vittata gracilipes Ridgway, 1915". ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Amazona vittata gracilipes Ridgway, 1915". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-05-16.


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