Anas sp. nov. 'Macquarie Island'
Macquarie Island teal
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Anas "Macquarie" (Holdaway et al. 2001:130)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1821? (Tyrberg, 2009:67)
Distribution
Macquarie Island, New Zealand (Tasmania, Australia, politically)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 119-187.
Meredith, C. (1985). A search for fossil seabirds on Macquarie Island. Australasian Seabird Group Newsletter 22: 9-13.
Tennyson AJD and Martinson P (2006) Extinct Birds of New Zealand. Te Papa Press, Wellington.
Tennyson, Alan J. D. and Scofield, Paul R. (2012). Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie Island, pp. 26. In: Worthy, Trevor H. and Göhlich, Ursula B. (eds.). 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Abstracts.
Tennyson, Alan J. D. and Scofield, Paul R. (2013). Holocene fossil bird remains from subantarctic Macquarie Island, pp. 239-251. In: Göhlich, Ursula B. and Kroh, Andreas (eds.). Paleornithological Research 2013. Proceed. 8th Internat. Meeting Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Publisher?
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Worthy TH and Holdaway RN (2002) The Lost World of the Moa. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.