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Nycticorax duboisi
(Rothschild) 1907
Holocene of Réunion, w Mascarene Islands, wc Indian Ocean
Primary materials: Type: Distal part left tibiotarsus
Kàlmàn Lambrecht,
Handbuch der Palaeornithologie
1024 p. (1933)
Gebrüder Borntraeger, Berlin
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Nycticorax megacephalus
Milne-Edwards 1874
Subrecent, Rodrigues, e Mascarene Islands, wc Indian Ocean
Primary materials: Types: cranium, coracoïdeum, sternum, humerus, femur, metacarpus,
tibiotarsus, tarsometatarsus, vertebrae, pelvis, scapula, ulna, radius, phalanx
Pierce Brodkorb,
Catalogue of fossil birds. Part 1 (Archaeopterygiformes through
Ardeiformes)
Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 7, 4 (1963): 179-293
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Nycticorax kalavikai
Steadman, Worthy, Anderson & Walter 2000
Holocene of Niue, Savage Islands, sw Pacific Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: tarsometatarsus
Secondary materials: Paratypes: occipital fragment cranium, pterygoïd, incomplete
mandibulae, scapulae, anterior part sternum, cervical and thoracal vertebrae, distal part
humerus, ulnae, radii, carpometacarpi, pelvis, femora, tibiotarsi, tarsometatarsi, pedal
phalanges
David W. Steadman, Trevor H. Worthy, Atholl J. Anderson & Richard
Walter,
New species and records of birds from prehistoric sites on Niue,
Southwest Pacific
The Wilson Bulletin 112 (2000): 165-186
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