Hypothetical species

A 1722 illustration by Jean-Baptiste Labat of three parrots on Guadeloupe. There are no remains of these parrots and so accurate taxonomic classification is impossible.

Several extinct species have been postulated, but owing to a lack of evidence they can only be regarded as hypothetical extinct species. They have caused confusion, as they may have been a separate species, a subspecies, an introduced species or a misidentification.^[1]

List of hypothetical species[]

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Birds[]

• Dominican green-and-yellow macaw
• Eos unicolor^{[citation needed]}
• Gallus giganteus
• Geoffroyus aureus^{[citation needed]}
• Guadeloupe amazon
• Jamaican red macaw
• Painted vulture
• Lesser Antillean macaw
• Lorius tibialis^{[citation needed]}
• Martinique amazon
• Martinique macaw
• hypothetical relatives of the Rodrigues Parrot
• Red-headed macaw
• Réunion solitaire (probable misidentification of the Réunion ibis)
• Réunion swamphen

Dinosaurs[]

• Archaeoraptor
• Proavis

Fish[]

• Bathysidus pentagrammus (Five-Lined constellation fish)

Insects[]

• Venezuelan poodle moth
• Battus polydamas antiquus (possibly based on a misidentification)

Mammals[]

• Chilihueque
• Zhejiang unknown canid

See also[]

Chimera (paleontology)

References[]

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