Coenocorypha sp. nov. ‘Norfolk Island’
Norfolk Island snipe (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene
Distribution
Norfolk Island, Australia
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. [automatic download]
Hume, J.P. (2017) Extinct Birds 2nd Edition
Meredith, C. W. (1985). The vertebrate fossil fauna of Norfolk Island, and the phylogeny of the genus Pterodroma. Unpublished PhD thesis. Department of Earth Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Meredith, C. W. (1991). Vertebrate fossil faunas from islands in Australasia and the Southwest Pacific, pp. 1345-1382. In: Vickers-Rich, P. V.; Monaghan, J. M.; Baird, R. F.; Rich, T. H. ed. Vertebrate palaeontology of Australasia. Pioneer Design Studios in cooperation with the Monash University Publications Committee, Melbourne. 1437 pp.
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)]
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.