Xestospiza

Xestospiza

Taxobox
name = Xestospiza
status = EX
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Drepanididae
genus = "Xestospiza"
genus_authority = Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. JamesThe Genus "Xestospiza" is a group of two cone-shaped billed birds, that are described on the basis of fossils. They were possibly insectivores. It contains the following species:

** Cone-billed Finch, "Xestospiza conica" - prehistoric
** Ridge-billed Finch, "Xestospiza fastigialis" - prehistoric

References

* Storrs L. Olson & Helen F. James, Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. PasseriformesOrnithological Monographs 46 (1991)

External links

* http://www.ornitaxa.com/SM/Fossil/FossilFringilli.htm


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