Larus utunui Steadman, 2002:3-4

Huahine gull, Society Islands gull

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: subfossil

Distribution

Huahine, Society Islands

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Steadman, David W. (2002). A new species of gull (Laridae: Larus) from an archaeological site on Huahine, Society Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115: 1-17.

Other references:

Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 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)]

Steadman, David W. and Pahlavan, Dominique S. (1992). Extinction and biogeography of birds on huahine, society islands, French polynesia. Geoarchaeology 7(5): 449-483. [Abstract]

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106 [85]. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/7793/larus-utunui-huahine-gull

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