Pareudiastes pacificus Hartlaub & Finsch, 1871:25
Samoan wood rail, Samoan woodrail, Samoan moorhen, Samoan gallinule, Punaé
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Gallinula pacificus Hartlaub & Finsch, 1871:25; Gallinula pacifica Hartlaub & Finsch, 1871:25; Pareudiastes pacifica Hartlaub & Finsch, 1871:25 (used by Tyrberg, 2009:82)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1873 (Day, 1981:87; Hume & Walters, 2012:118; Martin et al., 2023); 1984? (Taylor & van Perlo, 1998)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
Endemic to the island of Savai'i, Samoan Islands, it was last seen in 1873. However, recent reports (one in August 1984, two in 1987 and one in 2003) indicate that the species may still persist (Bellingham & Davis, 1984:123; BirdLife International, 2012).
Distribution
Savai[']i (& Opolu?), Samoa[n islands]
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=17]RMNH 110.046[/url]
[url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/naturalis/detail.php?lang=uk&id=17]RMNH 110.060[/url]
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hartlaub, G. and Finsch, O. (1871). The Samoan Wood Rail. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1871: 25.
Other references:
Beichle, U. and Bauchmann, S. (2003). Die Landvoegel der Samoa-Inseln. TenDenZen 1-2: 1-156.
Bellingham, Mark and Davis, Alison. (1988). Forest bird communities in Western Samoa. Notornis 35(2): 117-128.
BirdLife International. (2000). Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge.
BirdLife International. (2012). Gallinula pacifica. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 16 March 2013.
Bolau, H. (1898). Die Typen der Vogelsammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Mitt. Naturh. Mus. Hamburg 15: 45-71.
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Butchart, Stuart H. M., Stattersfield, A. J. and Brooks, T. M. (2006). Going or gone: defining ‘Possibly Extinct’ species to give a truer picture of recent extinctions. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 126A: 7-24.
Butchart, Stuart H. M., Wheatley, Hannah, Lowe, Stephen, Westrip, James R. S., Symes, Andy and Martin, Rob W. (2018b). Data for: Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/vvjhpmyxb4.1
Butler, David. (2012). Report on the birds of upland Savai, pp. 87-111. In: Atheron, James and Jeffries, Bruce (eds.). Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of Upland Savai'i, Samoa. Apia, Samoa: SPREP. 175 pp.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.
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Hay, J. R. (1986). Bird conservation in the Pacific Islands. Study Report No. 7, International Council for Bird Preservation.
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Pratt, H. Douglas and Mittermeier, John C. (2016). Notes on the natural history, taxonomy, and conservation of the endemic avifauna of the Samoan Archipelago. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128(2): 217-241. [Abstract]
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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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