Prosobonia cancellata Gmelin, 1789
Christmas sandpiper, Kiritimati sandpiper
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Aechmorhynchus cancellatus Gmelin, 1789
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: January 1778; 1850 (BirdLife International, 2017)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Kiritimati (= Christmas Island), Kiribati
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from the holotype.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gmelin, J.F. (1789). Aves Anseres. Tome I. Pars II. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae. 1(2): 501-1032.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2014). Prosobonia cancellata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 July 2014.
BirdLife International. (2017). Prosobonia cancellata (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T62289108A119208101. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T62289108A119208101.en. Downloaded on 27 June 2021.
Greenway James C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Special Publication no 13, 2nd edn. Dover Publications, New York.
del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Christie, D. A.; Elliott, A.; Fishpool, L. D. C. (2014). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International.
Jansen, J. J. F. J. and Cibois, Alice. (2020). Clarifying the morphology of the enigmatic Kiritimati sandpiper Prosobonia cancellata (J. F. Gmelin, 1785), based on a review of the contemporary data. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 140: 142-146.
Rothschild, Lionel Walter. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 119-120, pl. 35]
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.
Vanesa L. De Pietri, Trevor H. Worthy, R. Paul Scofield, Theresa L. Cole, Jamie R. Wood, Kieren J. Mitchell, Alice Cibois, Justin J. F. J. Jansen, Alan J. Cooper, Shaohong Feng, Wanjun Chen, Alan J. D. Tennyson & Graham M. Wragg. (2020). A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa115
Walters, Michael P. (1993). On the status of the Christmas Island sandpiper, Aechmorhynchus cancellatus. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 113: 97-102.