Mwalau walterlinii Worthy, Hawkins, Bedford & Spriggs, 2015

Linii's megapode

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Megapodius undescribed species C Tyrberg, 2009:69

Conservation Status

Extinct

Distribution

Efate, Vanuatu

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Worthy, Trevor H., Hawkins, Stuart, Bedford, Stuart and Spriggs, Matthew. (2015). Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita Site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, Including a New Genus and Species of Megapode. Pacific Science 69(2): 205-254.

Other references:

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)]

Steadman DW (2006) Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Paci; c Birds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

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.

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