Ara gossei is a chordate, or more specifically a bird, in the Psittacidae family.

Ara gossei is commonly known (its common name) as the Jamaican Red Macaw in English.

Ara gossei is classified as extinct by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Species Authority: The species authority, or the name(s) of scientist(s) or person(s) who first described Ara gossei is Rothschild, 1905 (IUCN Red List).

Country Distribution: Ara gossei is found in the following countries:

Jamaica [RE] (IUCN Red List).

Biome(s)/Ecosystem(s): IUCN lists the following as biomes for Ara gossei: Terrestrial (IUCN Red List).

Range: Ara gossei is known only from the work of Gosse in 1847 based on "specimen shot about 1765, by Mr Odell" in the mountains of Hanover Parish, about 10 miles east of Lucea, Jamaica². It was presumably hunted to extinction around the end of the 18th century. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

Red List Category & Criteria: Ara gossei is listed as EX ver 3.1 (2001) (IUCN Red List).

Year Assessed: Ara gossei's status was assessed in 2004 (IUCN Red List).

Assessor: Ara gossei's Red List status was evaluated by BirdLife International (IUCN Red List).

Red List Evaluator: The Red List Evaluator for Ara gossei is listed by IUCN as Stattersfield, A. (BirdLife International Red List Authority) & Brooks, T. (Conservation International) (IUCN Red List).

Red List Rational / Justification : Ara gossei is listed by IUCN for the following: Jamaican Red Macaw Ara gossei is known only from the work of Gosse in 1847 based on "specimen shot about 1765, by Mr Odell" in the mountains of Hanover Parish, about 10 miles east of Lucea, Jamaica. It was presumably hunted to extinction around the end of the 18th century. Taxonomy A number of authors have suggested that this taxon was conspecific with Hispanioloan Macaw A. tricolor, and it has even been suggested to have been based on a 'tapir' artifactual specimen. (IUCN Red List).

Red List History: Ara gossei was listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 1988 (IUCN Red List).

Data Sources for IUCN data: The following is a list of citations from the IUCN web site for Ara gossei:

Citations listed by IUCN

Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places:
For References from A–L.
For References from M–Z.

BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.

BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

(IUCN Red List).

Links: IUCN Red List Profile for Ara gossei (IUCN Red List).

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