Clicky

Erythrura sp. nov. 'Mariana Islands'

Marianas parrot-finch

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

 

Distribution

Guam & Rota, Mariana Islands

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Pregill, Gregory K. and Steadman, David W. (2009). The prehistory and biogeography of terrestrial vertebrates on Guam, Mariana Islands. Diversity and Distributions 15(6): 983-996.

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, David W. (1992). Extinct and Extirpated Birds from Rota, Mariana Islands. Micronesica 25(1): 71-84.

Steadman, David W. (1999). The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands. Micronesica 31: 319-345.

Steadman, David W. (2006). Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. xiv + 594 pp.

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.

 

<< Back to the Passeriformes (Passerine Birds) database