Branta sp. nov. 'Kauai'
Medium Kauai goose, Kauai goose (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Branta undescribed sp aff hylobadistes Milberg & Tyrberg, 1993:245; Branta aff. hylobadistes Burney et al. 2001:628; Branta undescribed species aff. hylobadistes Tyrberg, 2009:66
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Burney, David A. et al. (2001). Fossil evidence for a diverse biota from Kaua'i and its transformation since human arrival. Ecological Monographs 71(4): 615-641.
Milberg, Per and Tyrberg, Tommy. (1993). Naïve birds and noble savages - a review of man-caused prehistoric extinctions of island birds. Ecography 16: 229-250.
Olson SL and James HF (1982) Prodromus of the fossil avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 365, 1–59.
Olson SL and James HF (1984) The role of Polynesians in the extinction of the avifauna of the Hawaiian islands. In Martin PS and Klein RG, eds, Quaternary Extinctions: a Prehistoric Revolution, pp. 768–780. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Olson SL and James HF (1991) Descriptions of thirty two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 45, 1–88.
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.
Young, H. Glyn, Tonge, Simon J. and Hume, Julian Pender. (1996). Review of Holocene wildfowl extinctions. Wildfowl 47: 167-181.