Bermuda night heron
| Bermuda night heron | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Pelecaniformes |
| Family: | Ardeidae |
| Genus: | Nyctanassa |
| Species: | †N. carcinocatactes
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| Binomial name | |
| †Nyctanassa carcinocatactes | |
| Synonyms | |
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Nycticorax carcinocatactes | |
The Bermuda night heron (Nyctanassa carcinocatactes) is an extinct heron species from Bermuda.
Taxonomy
It is sometimes assigned to the genus subfossil material found in the Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in caves and ponds of Bermuda.
Description
Its
land crabs.[2]
Extinction
There are also early historian reports referring to the species. It possibly became extinct due to the settlement of the Bermuda islands in the 17th century. On Bermuda, the aforementioned yellow-crowned night heron was introduced in the 1970s to act as its proxy in the ecosystem, mostly to act as
Bermuda rock lizard.[2]
References
- . Retrieved 13 January 2018.
- ^ S2CID 85123890.
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