Pale-legged Marbled Bush-Cricket (Eupholidoptera pallipes)
The Pale-legged Marbled Bush-Cricket was described in 1976, it is, or maybe was, restricted to its type locality, apparently near the Linoseli spring in the Lefka Ori Mountains on the island of Crete, Greece.
The species was apparently only ever found once and is now believed to be extinct.
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edited: 03.11.2020
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Meridiocichla salotti Louchart
Salott’s Mediterranean Thrush (Meridiocichla salotti)
This is rather a Late Pleistocene species that apparently found its last refuge on some of the islands in the Mediterranean Sea, where some of its remains were recovered from Early Holocene deposits. Bones from Corsica and Crete are assigned to this form; additional remains found on the island of Mallorca may also belong here but have not yet been compared.
It was a quite large thrush, larger than any of the living members of the genus Turdus, yet it did not show any signs of insular adaptions like shortened wings etc. and is thus thought to have originally inhabited all of the Mediterranean region. [1]
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References:
[1] Antoine Louchart: An extinct large thrush (Aves: Turdidae) from the late Quaternary of Mediterranean Europe. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 233(2): 257-296. 2004
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edited: 30.12.2023