Prosobonia ellisi Sharpe, 1906:86
White-winged sandpiper, Ellis's sandpiper, Moorean sandpiper, Eimean sandpiper
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Considered a synonym of Prosobonia leucoptera by (Hume & Walters, 2012:130,332; Jansen et al., 2021)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1777 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Moorea, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
This species is only known by a painting in the British Museum (Day, 1981).
Media
This species is only known by a painting in the British Museum (Day, 1981).
References
Original scientific description:
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. (1906). A note on the White-winged Sandpiper. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 16: 86.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Prosobonia ellisi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
BirdLife International. 2016. Prosobonia ellisi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22728772A94996223. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728772A94996223.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020) Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Jansen, Justin J. F. J., Kamminga, Pepijn and Argeloo, Marc. (2021). Taxonomic implications of the original illustrations of Prosobonia from Tahiti and Moorea made during the second and third Cook expeditions. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141(2): 133-141. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v141i2.2021.a4
Kittelberger, Kyle D., Tanner, Colby J., Buxton, Amy N., Prewett, Amira and Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı. (2024). Correlates of avian extinction timing around the world since 1500 CE. Avian Research 15: 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100213 [Supplementary data (List of 216 taxa)]
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 132]
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
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]
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.
Walters, Michael. (1991). Prosobonia ellisi, an extinct species of sandpiper from Moorea, Society Islands. Bolletino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino 9: 217-226.
Walters, Michael. (1994). Birds' Eggs. Eyewitness Handbooks. London: Dorling Kindersley. 256 pp.
Zusi, R. L. and Jehl, J. R. (1970). The systematic relationships of Aechmorhynchus, Prosobonia, and Phegornis (Charadriiformes: Charadrii). Auk 87: 760-780.