Gallicolumba leonpascoi Worthy & Wragg, 2003:773
Henderson (Island) ground dove, Henderson ground-dove (Wragg & Weisler, 1994:61)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Gallicolumba n.sp. Wragg, 1995:407
The existence of an undescribed Gallicolumba sp. from Henderson Island, Pitcairn group (i.e. Gallicolumba leonpascoi) was mentioned in the literature by (Schubel & Steadman, 1989:6; Steadman, 1992:342-343; Wragg & Weisler, 1994:61; Wragg, 1995:407) before being officially described in 2003 (Worthy & Wragg, 2003).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene
Distribution & Habitat
Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, South Pacific
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: MNZ S40789 ("1L tarsometatarsus")
Type locality: "Henderson Island, Site 5, testpit 2, spit 14"
Paratypes:
MNZ S40844 ("1L tarsometatarsus")
MNZ S40839 ("1R tarsometatarsus")
Referred material:
For a detailed list of material referred to Gallicolumba leonpascoi see (Worthy & Wragg, 2003:775,778).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Worthy, Trevor H. and and Wragg G. M. (2003). A new species of Gallicolumba: Columbidae from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33(4): 769-793.
Other references:
Faurby, Søren, Matthews, Tom J., Triantis, Kostas A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2026). Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography 2026: e08267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08267
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Matthews, Thomas J., Triantis, Kostas A., Wayman, Joseph P., Martin, Thomas E., Hume, Julian P., Cardoso, Pedro, Faurby, Søren, Mendenhall, Chase D., Dufour, Paul, Rigal, François, Cooke, Rob, Whittaker, Robert J., Pigot, Alex L., Thébaud, Christophe, Jørgensen, Maria Wagner, Benavides, Eva, Soares, Filipa C., Ulrich, Werner, Kubota, Yasuhiro, Sadler, Jon P., Tobias, Joseph A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2024). The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions. Science 386(6717): 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk7898 [Supplementary Materials; Dryad dataset; Zenodo codeset]
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
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)]
Schubel, S. E. and Steadman, David W. (1989). More bird bones from archaeologcal sites on Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, South Pacific. Atoll Research Bulletin 325: 1-13.
Steadman, David W. (1989). Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: a review of the record, and comparisons with other Pacific island groups. J. Archeol. Sci. 16: 177-205.
Steadman, David W. (1992). New species of Gallicolumba and Macropygia (Aves: Columbidae) from archeological sites in Polynesia. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science Series 36: 329-348.
Tennyson, Alan J. D. and Bartle, J. A. (2008). Catalogue of type specimens of birds in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Tuhinga 19: 185-207.
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.
Wragg, Graham M. (1995). The fossil birds of Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group: natural turnover and human impact, a synopsis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 56: 405-414.
Wragg, G. M. and Weisler, M. I. (1994). Extinctions and new records of birds from Henderson Island, Pitcairn group, south Pacific Ocean. Notornis 41(1): 61-70.