Species profile
Cuban Macaw
Ara tricolor
Quick answer
Type specimen. — Neontological material (extinct during second half of 19 th century): adult mounted, MNHN CG 2000 – 726, with no date, precise locality, or collector (see Kirkconnell et al. 2020, pl. 58). Referred material. — Skull: lacking zygomatic arches, right portion of frontal area, and most of bone around otic regions, AC- 7 (Olson & Suárez 2008 b: 287 – 288, fig. 1 B: top [ventral], middle [dorsal], bottom [lateral]); rostrum, IGP / ACC unnumbered, at CZACC (Arredondo 1984: 18). Carpometacarpus: proximal half of right, AMNH unnumbered (Wetmore 1928: 4).
- Scientific name
- Ara tricolor
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Genus
- Ara
- Conservation status
- Extinct
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