Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson, 1834

Suárez, William, 2022, Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142 (1), pp. 247-248 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v142i1.2022.a3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4C9216EC-E822-4CC7-A163-6E96CFB3078F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13760978

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E575C653-FFA4-0801-FE6C-A62B54CDFB6B

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Felipe

scientific name

Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson, 1834
status

 

9. × Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson, 1834 View in CoL

Bare-throated Tiger Heron (Garza Tigre Mejicana)

Tigrisoma mexicana Swainson, 1834 , in Murray, Encycl. Geogr., p. 1383.

Referred material.— Tarsometatarsus: left, AC- 33 ( Olson & Suárez 2008a: 285, figs. 1B [anterior], 2A [anterior]). Collected during February–April 2004 by members of Arqueocentro [= Néstor A. Gómez, Lorenzo Morales and Raul Villavicencio Finalet], Sagua La Grande ( Olson & Suárez 2008a: 285).

Distribution.—Sinkhole deposit in central Cuba (see Appendix). Villa Clara. Sagua La Grande: VCB ( Olson & Suárez 2008a: 286).

Direct 14 C dating .—None.

Notes.—Extremely rare. The single tarsometatarsus from Cuba referred to T. mexicanum is the first evidence of this genus in a fossil locality anywhere, and the first record of the subfamily Tigrisomatinae in the West Indies ( Olson & Suárez 2008a).

AC-

Amherst College, Beneski Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Pelecaniformes

Family

Ardeidae

Genus

Tigrisoma

Loc

Tigrisoma mexicanum Swainson, 1834

Suárez, William 2022
2022
Loc

Tigrisoma mexicana

Swainson 1834
1834
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