Acrocephalus yamashinae (Taka-Tsukasa, 1931)
Pagan nightingale reed-warbler, Pagan reed-warbler
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Acrocephalus luscinius yamashinae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931; Conopoderas yamashinae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931; Conopoderas luscinia yamashinae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931; Acrocephalus luscinia yamashinae Taka-Tsukasa, 1931
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1960 (1970's?)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Pagan, Marianas Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Taka-Tsukasa, Nobusuke. (1931) Dobutsu.Zasshi 43 p.485.
Takatsukasa, S. & Yamashina, Y. (1931) Zasshi, 43, 484–487
Other references:
Baker, Rollin H. (1951). The avifauna of Micronesia: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution (p. 257; pp. 1-359). In, E. Raymond Hall, A. Byron Leonard, Edward H. Taylor and Robert W. Wilson (eds.). (1951). University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 3. Kansas, USA: University of Kansas Publications.
BirdLife International. (2016). Acrocephalus yamashinae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T103780103A104319399. Downloaded on 16 December 2016.
Cibois, A., J.S. Beadel, G.R. Graves, , E. Pasquet, B. Slikas, S.A. Sonsthagen, J.-C. Thibault, and R.C. Fleischer. (2011). Charting the course of reed-warblers across the Pacific islands. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1963-1975.
Courtney-Haines, Lawrence M. (1991). A Cabinet of Reed-Warblers: A Monograph Dealing with the Acrocephaline Warblers of the World, and Embracing All Known Species ans Sub-species. Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty & Sons. xvii + 95 pp.
del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020). Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
Kearns, Anna M. et al. (2022). Conservation genomics and systematics of a near-extinct island radiation. Molecular Ecology 31(7): 1995-2012. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16382
Marshall, Ann P. et al. (2021). Status of endemic reed-warblers of the Mariana Islands, with emphasis on conservation strategies for the endangered Nightingale Reed-warbler. Bird Conservation International. doi: 10.1017/S0959270921000034
Reichel, James D., J. Wiles, Gary, and Glass, Phil. (1992). Island extinctions: The case of the endangered Nightingale Reed-warbler. The Wilson Bulletin 104(1): 44-54.
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)]