Pampusana ferruginea (Forster, 1844:265)
Tanna ground dove, Tanna dove, Tanna ground-dove, Forsters' dove of Tanna
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Gallicolumba ferruginea Forster, 1844:265; Alopecoenas ferrugineus Forster, 1844:265
The species authority is given as "(Wagler [1829])" by (Hume & Walters, 2012:150).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: August 1774 (Forster, 1778; Day, 1981; Kittelberger et al., 2024 [as 1774])
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Tanna (Island), Vanuatu
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Forster (1778) recounts how a dove was shot on Tanna, Vanuatu. Either this, or a painting now in Tring (Knox & Walters, 1994), was the basis for Forster's (1844) description. However, if the specimen was preserved it seems to have been lost.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Forster, Johann Reinhold. (1844). Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772-74 suscepto collegit, observavit et delineavit J.R. Foster, ... nunc demum editae auctoritata ... Academiae ... curante H. Lichtenstein. Berlin. pp. xiii, 424. [p. 265]
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Gallicolumba ferruginea. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 21 May 2013.
BirdLife International. 2016. Alopecoenas ferrugineus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22691052A93301514. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22691052A93301514.en. Accessed on 20 June 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.
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del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020) Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
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