Acrocephalus nijoi Yamashina, 1942 (1940?)
Aguiguan nightingale reed-warbler
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Acrocephalus luscinia nijoi Yamashina, 1942; Conopoderas luscinia nijoi Yamashina, 1942
Previously differentiated from Acrocephalus (luscinia) luscinia merely by a distinctly shorter bill, a new paper by (Saitoh et al. 2012) has argued that there was several lineages which independently colonized Melanesian islands, presumably through convergence. They came to be so phenotypically similar that they were for a long time regarded as a monophyletic group.
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1983-1985
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Aguijan (=Aguiguan =Agiguan =Aguihan), Northern Mariana Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Yamashina, Y. (1940) Tori, 10, 673-679
or,
Yamashina, Y. (1942). A new subspecies of Conopoderas luscinia from the Mariana Islands. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 12: 81-83.
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