Ptilinopus sp. nov. 'Mangareva'
Mangareva fruit dove
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Mangareva
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Kirch, P.V., Conte, E., Sharp, W., and Nickelsen, C. (2010). The Onemea Site (Taravai Island, Mangareva) and the human colonization of Southeastern Polynesia. Archaeology in Oceania, 45:66-79.
Rigal, Stanislas, Kirch, Patrick V. and Worthy, Trevor H. (2018). New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.3.43.
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)]
Thibault, J.-C. and Cibois, A. (2012). From early Polynesian settlements to the present: bird extinctions in the Gambier Islands. Pacific Science, 66(3):271-281.