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

• Published in: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• Main Authors: Rando, JC, Alcover, JA, Pieper, H, Olson, SL, Hernández, C. Nayra, López Jurado, Luis Felipe
• Other Authors: #NODATA#, BU-BAS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: 241601 Paleontología animal; Anatomy; Extinction; Fossil birds; Island biogeography; Morphometrics; Quaternary; Santo Island; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/121651; https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz107

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...