Aceros sp. nov. 'Loyalty Islands'

Lifou hornbill

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene?

Distribution

Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Hume, J.P. (2017) Extinct Birds 2nd Edition

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

Steadman, David W. (2006). Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. xiv + 594 pp.

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.

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