Culebra Island amazon

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
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Amazona
Species:
Subspecies:
A. v. gracilipes
Trinomial name
Amazona vittata gracilipes
Ridgway, 1915

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