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Coereba flaveola (bananaquit)

Reptilia - Passeriformes - Thraupidae

Taxonomy

Certhia flaveola was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Coereba flaveola by Olson and Hilgartner (1982), Olson et al. (1990), Morgan (1994), Clements et al. (2017), Steadman et al. (2018), Oswald and Steadman (2018).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Certhia flaveola Linnaeus p. 119
1982	Coereba flaveola Olson and Hilgartner p. 50
1990	Coereba flaveola Olson et al.
1994	Coereba flaveola Morgan p. 484
2017	Coereba flaveola Clements et al.
2018	Coereba flaveola Oswald and Steadman p. 367
2018	Coereba flaveola Steadman et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
—	Neognathae	(Pycraft 1900)
order	Passeriformes	Linnaeus 1758
family	Thraupidae	Cabanis 1847
genus	Coereba	Vieillot 1809
species	flaveola	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Coereba flaveola Linnaeus 1758 [bananaquit]

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:39:15

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:39:15

Source: subo = suborder, o = order

References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Cayman Islands	Coereba flaveola (209851)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene	0.129 - 0.0	Bahamas (New Providence Island)	Coereba flaveola (144649)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene	0.129 - 0.0	Bahamas (San Salvador)	Coereba flaveola (190743 190744)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Bahamas	Coereba flaveola (194596)