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Moho sp. nov. 'Maui'

Maui o-o

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: c.1900 (Day, 1981:96)

 

An o-o was seen on Maui by H. W. Henshaw 'around 1900' (Day, 1981:96).

 

Distribution

Maui, Hawaiian Islands, USA

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

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

Fleischer, Robert C., James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. (2008). Convergent Evolution of Hawaiian and Australo-Pacific Honeyeaters from Distant Songbird Ancestors. Current Biology 18(24): 1927-1931.

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.

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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