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The Jamaican ibis, Jamaican flightless ibis [1] or clubbed-wing ibis [2] (Xenicibis xympithecus) is an extinct bird species of the ibis subfamily uniquely characterized by its club-like wings. [3] It is the only species in the genus Xenicibis , [ 1 ] and one of only two flightless ibis genera, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the other being the genus Apteribis ...
Drawing based on figure 2h and 2i of Longrich, Nicholas R; Olson, Storrs L (2011). "The bizarre wing of the Jamaican flightless ibis Xenicibis xympithecus: a unique vertebrate adaptation". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: –. .
F. Martin Brown and Bernard Heineman, Jamaica and its Butterflies (E. W. Classey, London 1972) Norman D. Riley, A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the West Indies (Collins, 1975) Eric Garraway and Audette Bailey, Butterflies of Jamaica (Macmillan Caribbean Natural History, 2005)
An extinct species, the Jamaican ibis or clubbed-wing ibis (Xenicibis xympithecus) was uniquely characterized by its club-like wings. Extinct ibis species include the following: Geronticus perplexus. Discovered in France. It is known only from a piece of distal right humerus, found at Sansan France, in Middle Miocene rocks.
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The red-billed streamertail is the national bird of Jamaica. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Jamaica. The avifauna of Jamaica included a total of 332 species as of July 2022, according to Bird Checklists of the World. Of them, 28 are endemic, 19 have been introduced by humans, and 159 are rare or accidental. Another species (great-tailed grackle) is concentrated in one area and ...
Butterflies of the Caribbean — part of the Lepidoptera (butterfly & moth) ... Butterflies of Jamaica (41 P) T. Butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago (51 P)
The family Papiliondae has the greatest diversity in the tropics, where P. homerus is found. [7] Morphological analysis reveals that P. garamas (endemic to Central America) and P. homerus share a recent common ancestor, suggesting that butterflies may have traveled across no-longer existing land masses between Central America and Jamaica.