Takano Oona M, Steadman David W
Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843; telephone 352-870-3640, FAX 979-845-4096.; Email:
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, P. O. Box 117800, Gainesville, FL 32611; telephone 352-273-1969, FAX 352-846-0287.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Oct 14;4032(1):117-26. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4032.1.6.
Several hundred late Holocene fossils from Trouing Jean Paul, a cave in Massif de la Selle, Haiti, represent an extinct species of woodcock (Scolopax brachycarpa, new species). Scolopax brachycarpa is known from most major skeletal elements; although volant, its carpometacarpus was very short relative to its humerus. The only other species of Scolopax from the West Indies is the extinct and presumably closely related S. anthonyi of Puerto Rico, which also had a relatively short carpometacarpus compared to continental congeners. Both Scolopax brachycarpa and S. anthonyi share more osteological characters with the Eurasian S. rusticola than with the North American S. minor.
来自海地塞尔山地块一个名为特鲁安·让·保罗的洞穴中的数百个晚全新世化石，代表了一种已灭绝的丘鹬物种（短腕丘鹬，新物种）。短腕丘鹬的大多数主要骨骼元素都已为人所知；尽管它会飞，但相对于肱骨而言，其腕掌骨非常短。西印度群岛的丘鹬属的另一个物种是已灭绝且可能密切相关的波多黎各安东尼丘鹬，与大陆同类相比，它的腕掌骨也相对较短。短腕丘鹬和安东尼丘鹬与欧亚丘鹬相比，与北美小丘鹬共有更多的骨骼特征。
