Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) from the Pleistocene of Cuba: a New Subfamily for the West Indies

Storrs L. Olson; William Suárez

doi:10.1675/1524-4695(2008)31[285:BTTMFT]2.0.CO;2

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Storrs L. Olson,¹ William Suárez²

¹Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA Corresponding author; olsons@si.edu
²Departamento de Paleogeografía y Paleobiología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Obispo 61, Plaza de Armas, La Habana, CH 10100, Cuba

Abstract

A complete tarsometatarsus from a small Pleistocene sinkhole in northwest central Cuba is identified as that of a Bare-throated Tiger-Heron Tigrisoma mexicanum. This constitutes the first record of any kind of tiger-heron (subfamily Tigrisomatinae) in the West Indies. The extinction of the species in Cuba is perhaps attributable to habitat loss due to climatic change.

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Storrs L. Olson and William Suárez "Bare-throated Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma mexicanum) from the Pleistocene of Cuba: a New Subfamily for the West Indies," Waterbirds 31(2), 285-288, (1 June 2008). https://doi.org/10.1675/1524-4695(2008)31[285:BTTMFT]2.0.CO;2

Received: 10 September 2007; Accepted: 1 November 2007; Published: 1 June 2008

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