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Hemignathus ellisiana lanaiensis Rothschild, 1893:24

Lanai akialoa

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Hemignathus ellisianus lanaiensis Rothschild, 1893:24; Hemignathus lanaiensis Rothschild, 1893:24; Hemignathus obscurus lanaiensis Rothschild, 1893:24; Akialoa lanaiensis Rothschild, 1893:24; Akialoa undescribed species aff. lanaiensis Tyrberg, 2009:101

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1892 (Olson & James, 1995:384); c.1894 (Day, 1981)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Lanai, Hawaiian Islands, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Rothschild, Walter. (1893). [Description of Hemignathus lanaíeníensis]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 1: 24-25.

 

Other references:

Amante-Helweg, V.L.U., Pratt, L.W. and Pratt, T.K. 2009. Hawaiian pronunciation guide and glossary. In: Pratt, T.K., Atkinson, C.T., Banko, P.C., Jacobi, J.D. and Woodworth, B.L. (eds), Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Island Avifauna, pp. 581-590. Yale University Press, New Haven.

AOU. 1998. Check-list of North American birds. American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C.

BirdLife International. (2000). Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge.

BirdLife International. 2017. Akialoa lanaiensis (amended version of 2017 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103823431A119549974. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103823431A119549974.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

Collar, N. J.; Crosby, M. J.; Stattersfield, A. J. 1994. Birds to watch 2: the world list of threatened birds. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

Elphick, Chris S., Roberts, David L. and Reed, J. Michael. (2010). Estimated dates of recent extinctions for North American and Hawaiian birds. Biological Conservation 143: 617-624.

Gorresen, P.M., Camp, R.J., Reynolds, M.H., Woodworth, B.L. and Pratt, T.K. 2009. Status and trends of native Hawaiian songbirds. In: Pratt, T.K., Atkinson, C.T., Banko, P.C., Jacobi, J.D. and Woodworth, B.L. (eds), Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Island Avifauna, pp. 108-136. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Greenway James C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Special Publication no 13, 2nd edn. Dover Publications, New York.

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

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 46: 1-88.

Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 245]

Medway, D. G. (1981). The contribution of Cook's third voyage to the ornithology of the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 35: 105-175.

Olson, Storrs L. and James, Helen F. (1982). Prodromus of the fossil avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 365: 1-59.

Olson, Storrs L. and James, Helen F. (1995). Nomenclature of the Hawaiian Akialoas and Nukupuus (Aves: Drepanidini). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3): 373-387.

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)]

Stattersfield, A.J., Crosby, M.J., Long, A.J. and Wege, D.C. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

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.

Woodworth, B.L., Lieberman, A.A., Nelson, J.T. and Fretz, J.S. 2009. Puaiohi. In: Pratt, T.K., Atkinson, C.T., Banko, P.C., Jacobi, J.D. and Woodworth, B.L. (eds), Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Island Avifauna, pp. 499-512. Yale University Press, New Haven.

 

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