Jamaica Petrel

Jamaica Petrel

Taxobox
name = Jamaica Petrel
status = CR
status_system = IUCN3.1
trend = unknown
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Procellariiformes
familia = Procellariidae
genus = "Pterodroma"
species = "P. caribbaea"
binomial = "Pterodroma caribbaea"
binomial_authority = Carte, 1866

The Jamaica Petrel ("Pterodroma caribbaea") is (or was) a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus, "Pterodroma". It is also known as the Blue Mountain Duck. It is related to the Black-capped Petrel "P. hasitata", and often considered a subspecies.

This species was last collected in 1879, and was searched for without success between 1996 and 2000. However, it cannot yet be classified as extinct because nocturnal petrels are notoriously difficult to record, and it may conceivably occur on Dominica and Guadeloupe.

Several species of lice are known to have parasitized the Jamaica and Black-capped Petrels [http://www.phthiraptera.org/Birds/Procellariidae.html] . If the former is extinct, one of these lice, the phtilopterid "Saemundssonia jamaicensis" may be coextinct as it has not been found on other birds (Mey 1990).

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is possibly extinct

* Mey, Eberhard (1990): Eine neue ausgestorbene Vogel-Ischnozere von Neuseeland, "Huiacola extinctus" (Insecta, Phthiraptera). "Zoologischer Anzeiger" 224(1/2): 49-73. [German with English abstract] [http://www.phthiraptera.org/Publications/0472.pdf PDF fulltext]

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3912&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]


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