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Xestospiza fastigialis

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Xestospiza fastigialis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: †Xestospiza
Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James
Species:
†X. X. conica
Binomial name
†Xestospiza Xestospiza conica

Xestospiza fastigialis is an extinct species of bird with a ridge-shape bill that was described on the basis of fossils. It was possibly an insectivore, populating the Hawaiian Islands of Oahu, Molokai and Maui.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ James, Helen F.; Olson, Storrs L (1991). "Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes". Ornithological Monographs. 46 (46): 1–92 (53–54). doi:10.2307/40166713. hdl:10088/1746.

Further reading

  • A Natural history of the Hawaiian Islands: selected readings II. [Honolulu]: University of Hawaii Press. 1994. ISBN 0-8248-1659-5.


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