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Chloridops regiskongi James & Olson, 1991

Giant grosbeak, King kong grosbeak, King Kong finch

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene

 

Distribution

Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

USNM 528523 (maxilla; Hearty et al. 2005)

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L (1991). Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs (American Ornithologists' Union) 46: 39-43.

 

Other references:

Hearty, P. J., James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. (2005). The Geological Context of Middle Pleistocene Crater Lake Deposits and Fossil Birds at Ulupau Head, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. In ALCOVER, J.A. & BOVER, P. (eds.): Proceedings of the International Symposium “Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach”. Monografies de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears, 12. [incomplete citation]

James, Helen F. (1987). A late Pleistocene avifauna from the island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands. L’Évolution des oiseaux d’après le témoignage des fossiles. Table Ronde internationale de CNRS, Lyon-Villeurbanne, 18-21 Sept. 1985. Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de Lyon, no. 99 (ed. by C. Mourer-Chauviré), pp. 121-128.

James, Helen F. (2004). The osteology and phylogeny of the Hawaiian finch radiation (Fringillidae: Drepanidini), including extinct taxa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 207-255, 17 figs.

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)]

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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