Hypothetical species
Several species have been assumed to exist, but due to a lack of physical evidence they can only be regarded as potential species. Hypothetical species are usually believed to be extinct. They have caused confusion, as they may have been a separate species, a subspecies, an introduced species or a misidentification.[1]
List of hypothetical species
Birds
- Albin's Macaw
- Arkansaw siskin, Fringilla spaltria[2]
- Barraband's mystery black-breasted twelve-wired bird-of-paradise
- Bird of Washington, Haliaetus washingtoni[2]
- Blue-browed fig parrot
- Blue Mountain warbler, Sylvia montana[2]
- Blue-thighed lory, Lorius tibialis
- Dominican green-and-yellow macaw, Ara atwoodi
- Carbonated warbler, Sylvia carbonata[2]
- Cuvier's kinglet, Regulus cuvieri[2]
- Geoffroyus aureus
- Guadeloupe amazon, Amazona violacea
- Guadeloupe parakeet, Psittacara labati
- Hypothetical relatives of the Rodrigues parrot
- Jago fowl, Gallus giganteus
- Jamaican red macaw, Ara gossei
- Lesser Antillean macaw, Ara guadeloupensis
- Madeira finch, Goniaphea leucocephala
- Martinique amazon, Amazona martinicana
- Martinique macaw, Ara martinicus
- Meidum geese
- Painted vulture, Sarcoramphus sacra/Sarcoramphus papa ssp.
- Orange-breasted penguin
- Raiatea starling, Aplonis? ulietensis
- Red-headed macaw, Ara erythrocephala
- Roper River scrub robin, Drymodes superciliaris colcloughi
- Réunion stork, Leguatia gigantea[3]
- Réunion swamphen, Porphyrio caerulescens
- Small-headed flycatcher, Muscicapa minuta[2]
- Sushkin's goose, Anser neglectus
- Tahiti crake, Zapornia nigra
- Townsends' dickcissel, Spiza townsendi
- Townsend’s finch, Emberiza townsendi[2]
- Unicolored lory, Eos unicolor
- Unidentified Jamaican parrot
- Zhenniao
Non-avian dinosaurs
- Proavis (partim)
Mammals
- Andean wolf, Dasycyon hagenbecki
- Chilihueque, Lama araucana
- Chinese elephant, Elephas maximus rubridens
- Giraffa sahara[4]
- Kallana
- Long-necked seal, Phoca mutica
- Shrewdinger[5]
- Sonnerat's shrew, Diplomesodon sonnerati
- Steller's sea ape, Simia marina
- Sumxu
- Unidentified extinct canid populations[6][7]
Fish
- Abyssal rainbow gar[8]
- Five-lined constellation fish, Bathysidus pentagrammus[8]
- Giant dragonfish, Bathysphaera intacta[8]
- Pallid sailfin, Bathyembryx istiophasma[8]
- Three-starred anglerfish, Bathyceratias trilynchnus[8]
Arthropods
- Acarus crossi
- Battus polydamas antiquus
- Euploea rogeri
- Guam glider, Neptis guamensis[9]
- Papilio antizox[10]
Other invertebrates
Plants
- Laysan fan palm, Pritchardia? sp
- Silphium
See also
References
- ^ Fuller, Errol (1987). Extinct Birds. Penguin Books (England). p. 131. ISBN 0-670-81787-2.
- ^ a b c d e f g https://www.audubon.org/news/john-james-audubon-crazy-wrong-or-neither
- ^ https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/gruiformes-crakes-cranes-rails-etc/leguatia-gigantea
- ^ Solounias, Nikos (2022-09-27). Anatomy and Evolution of the Giraffe: Parts Unknown (PDF). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 1–6. ISBN 978-1-5275-8686-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-06-01.
- ^ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-is-now-a-hypothetical-species-named-shrewdinger-because-of-you-16682798
- ^ Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Niemann, Jonas; Samaniego Castruita, Jose A.; Vieira, Filipe G.; Carøe, Christian; Montero, Marc de Manuel; Kuderna, Lukas; Serres, Aitor; González-Basallote, Víctor Manuel; Liu, Yan-Hu; Wang, Guo-Dong; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Mirarab, Siavash; Fernandes, Carlos; Gaubert, Philippe; Koepfli, Klaus-Peter; Budd, Jane; Rueness, Eli Knispel; Sillero, Claudio; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Petersen, Bent; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas; Bachmann, Lutz; Wiig, Øystein; Hansen, Anders J.; Gilbert, M. Thomas P. (2018). "Interspecific Gene Flow Shaped the Evolution of the Genus Canis". Current Biology. 28 (21): 3441–3449.e5. Bibcode:2018CBio...28E3441G. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.041. PMC 6224481. PMID 30344120.
- ^ Wang, Guo-Dong; Zhang, Ming; Wang, Xuan; Yang, Melinda A.; Cao, Peng; Liu, Feng; Lu, Heng; Feng, Xiaotian; Skoglund, Pontus; Wang, Lu; Fu, Qiaomei; Zhang, Ya-Ping (2019). "Genomic Approaches Reveal an Endemic Subpopulation of Gray Wolves in Southern China". iScience. 20: 110–118. Bibcode:2019iSci...20..110W. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2019.09.008. PMC 6817678. PMID 31563851.
- ^ a b c d e Beebe, William (1934). Half Mile Down (PDF). New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company.
- ^ https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/lepidoptera-butterflies-moths/neptis-guamensis
- ^ https://collector-secret.proboards.com/thread/109/african-enigma-barns-papilio-antizox