Draft:Alejandro Selkirk firecrown

Alejandro Selkirk firecrown
	Alejandro Selkirk firecrown
Conservation status
	; Extinct (1908) (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Strisores
Order:	Apodiformes
Family:	Trochilidae
Genus:	Sephanoides
Species:	S. fernandensis
Subspecies:	†S. f. leyboldi
Trinomial name
	†Sephanoides fernandensis leyboldi; Gould, 1880
Synonyms
	Eustephanus leyboldi Gould, 1880-1887

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Instructions · What links here · Alejandro Selkirk firecrown (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 54 days ago by 208.59.242.53 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 53 days ago by Significa liberdade

The Alejandro Selkirk firecrown (Sephanoides fernandensis leyboldi) is an extinct subspecies of the Juan Fernández firecrown that lived on Alejandro Selkirk Island in the Juan Fernández Archipelago belonging to Chile.^[1]

Taxonomy

Most worldwide taxonomic systems accept this species as putative. However, a few authors question this subspecies and whether a firecrown ever existed on Alejandro Selkirk Island.^[2]

Extinction

The Alejandro Selkirk firecrown may have went extinct due to deforestation, erosion and predation by introduced cats, rats, goats, and rabbits.^[3] It might have also competed with the introduction of plants such as Luma apiculata, as well as the green-backed firecrown. It was last seen in 1908, but the sighting was unconfirmed.^[3]

References

^ HBW and BirdLife International (2020) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB] retrieved 31 January 2025
^ Johow, Federico. (2007). El picaflor de la Isla de Masafuera: ¿subspecie extinta, nunca existió o mistery bird? / The Hummingbird of the Masafuera Island: extinct subspecies, never existed or Mystery Bird? Boletín Chileno de Ornitología 13: 28-41. [in Spanish with English summary]
^ ^a ^b Hume, Julian P. (2017): Extinct Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 560 pages.

[1] HBW and BirdLife International (2020) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world Version 5. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v5_Dec20.zip [.xls zipped 1 MB] retrieved 31 January 2025

[2] Johow, Federico. (2007). El picaflor de la Isla de Masafuera: ¿subspecie extinta, nunca existió o mistery bird? / The Hummingbird of the Masafuera Island: extinct subspecies, never existed or Mystery Bird? Boletín Chileno de Ornitología 13: 28-41. [in Spanish with English summary]

[Hume_2017-3] Hume, Julian P. (2017): Extinct Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 560 pages.

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