Unforeseen diversity of quails (Galliformes: Phasianidae: Coturnix) in oceanic islands provided by the fossil record of Macaronesia

• Main Authors: Rando, J. Carlos, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Pieper, Harald, Olson, S. L., Hernández, C. Nayra, López-Jurado, Luis F.
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2020
• Subjects: Anatomy; Extinction; Fossil birds; Island biogeography; Morphometrics; Quaternary; Santo Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/238658; https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz107; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329

The original bird fauna of most oceanic islands has been affected by recent extinction processes associated with human arrival and its subsequent impacts. In the volcanic Macaronesian archipelagos (Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary Islands and Cape Verde), in the North Atlantic, the Late Quaternary...