Jamaican red macaw [SEP] parent taxon
Jamaican red macaw
The Jamaican red macaw ("Ara gossei") may have been a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae that lived on Jamaica, but its existence is hypothetical.
The only reported specimen was shot on Jamaica around 1765, and was later seen by a Dr. Robertson when it was stuffed. It is now lost. Robertson sent a description of it to Philip Henry Gosse, who published his own description in 1847:
Robertson stated the bird had never been seen or figured before, and that
to have their names associated with the extinct species that they were postulating.
List of hypothetical species.
- "Battus polydamas antiquus" (possibly based on a misidentification)
- Dominican green-and-yellow macaw
- "Geoffroyus aureus"
- Guadeloupe amazon
- Jamaican red macaw
- Painted vulture
- Lesser Antillean macaw
- "Lorius tibialis"
- Martinique amazon
- Martinique macaw
- "Necropsittacus"
- Red-headed macaw
- Réunion solitaire (probably the Réunion