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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.

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.

 

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