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| Canary Islands oystercatcher | |
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| Illustration by Henrik Grønvold from 1914 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Haematopodidae |
| Genus: | Haematopus |
| Species: | †H. meadewaldoi
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| †Haematopus meadewaldoi Bannerman, 1913
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The Canary Islands oystercatcher, Canarian oystercatcher, or Canarian black oystercatcher (Haematopus meadewaldoi),[notes 1] was a shorebird of uncertain taxonomy endemic to Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, and their offshore islets (Islote de Lobos and the Chinijo Archipelago) in the Canary Islands in Spain. It is now considered to be extinct.
The Canary Islands oystercatcher has had a complicated taxonomic history. Though it was long known to naturalists, it was considered a mere local population or subspecies of the African oystercatcher (Haematopus moquini) until 1913; these two were at the time occasionally lumped as subspecies of the Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus). Hockey (1982) concluded that the Canary Islands oystercatcher was actually a full species, distinct from the African oystercatcher. However, DNA analyses conducted in 2018 and published in 2019 concluded that the Canary Islands oystercatcher was most likely a subspecies of the common Eurasian oystercatcher.
- ^ BirdLife International (2021). "Haematopus meadewaldoi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T22693621A205917399. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T22693621A205917399.en. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
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