Moho apicalis Gould, 1860
O'ahu 'o'o
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Acrulocercus apicalis Gould, 1860
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1837 (Day, 1981:96); 1840 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Gould 1861 Proc.Zool.Soc.London["1860"] Pt(28)3 p.381
Other references:
Bangs, Outram. (1910). Unrecorded specimens of two rare Hawaiian birds. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 23: 67-70.
BirdLife International. (2012). Moho apicalis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
BirdLife International. 2017. Moho apicalis (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22704329A111776064. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22704329A111776064.en. Accessed on 30 June 2022.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
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Rothschild, Lionel Walter (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 27, pl. 4A]
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)]
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