Ptilinopus mercierii mercierii Des Murs & Prévost, 1849:266
Nuku Hiva red-moustached fruit dove, Nuku Hiva moustached fruit dove
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Kurkuru Mercieri Des Murs & Prévost, 1849:266
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: between 1836 and 1839?; 1848 (Voisin et al., 2004); 1849 (Hume & Walters, 2012:158)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from the holotype (BirdLife International, 2012).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Des Murs, O. and Prévost, F. (1849). Voyage autour du monde sur la Venus, pendant 1836-39, Zoology 177-284. Paris: J. Claye.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Ptilinopus mercierii. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 22 September 2012.
BirdLife International. 2016. Ptilinopus mercierii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22691495A93314660. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22691495A93314660.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.
Cibois, Alice, Thibault, Jean-Claude, Meyer, Jean-Yves and Pasquet, Eric. (2015). On the origin of sympatric fruit doves in a small and remote Pacific archipelago. Pacific Science 69(3): 299-312.
Collar, N. J.; Crosby, M. J.; Stattersfield, A. J. 1994. Birds to watch 2: the world list of threatened birds. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
Hay, R. 1986. Bird conservation in the Pacific Islands. International Council for Bird Preservation, Cambridge, U.K.
Holyoak, D. T. and Thibault, Jean-Claude. (1984). Contribution à l'etude des oiseaux de Polynésie Orientale. Memoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Serie A, Zoologie 127: 1-209.
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.
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)]
Seitre, R.; Seitre, J. 1992. Causes of land-bird extinctions in French Polynesia. Oryx 26: 215-222.
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.
Voisin, C., J.-F. Voisin, C. Jouanin, and R. Bour. 2004. Liste des types d'oiseaux des collections du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. 13: Gangas et Pigeons (Pteroclicidae et Columbidae), première partie. Zoosystema 26: 107-28.