Paroreomyza montana montana Wilson, 1890 "1889"
Lanai 'alauwahio
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Loxops (Paroreomyza) maculata montana Wilson, 1890 "1889"
Conservation Status
Extinct (NatureServe, 2026)
Last record: 1928l 1937 (NatureServe, 2026)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Lana'i, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wilson, Scott. (1890 "1889"). Descriptions of some new Species of Sandwich-Island Birds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1889: 445-447.
Other references:
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1957. The AOU check-list of North American birds, 5th ed. Port City Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 691 pp.
American Ornithologists' Union (AOU). 1983. Check-list of North American Birds, 6th edition. Allen Press, Inc., Lawrence, Kansas. 877 pp.
Baker, H., and P. E. Baker. 2000. Maui `Alauahio (Paroreomyza montana). No. 504 in A. Poole and F. Gill (editors), The Birds of North America. The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. 28 pp.
BirdLife International. (2012). Paroreomyza montana. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 25 August 2013.
BirdLife International. (2023). Paroreomyza montana. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2023: e.T22720818A224944120. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T22720818A224944120.en. Accessed on 01 October 2026.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Ehrlich, Paul R., Dobkin, David S. and Wheye, Darryl. (1992). Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 259 pp.
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.
Fisher, Diana O. and Humphreys, Aelys M. (2024). Evidence for modern extinction in plants and animals. Biological Conservation 298: 110772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110772
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.
Jouanin, Christian. (1962). Inventaire des oiseaux éteints ou en voie d’extinction conservés au Muséum de Paris. Terre et Vie 109: 275-301.
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. [pp. 242-243]
NatureServe. (2026). Paroreomyza montana montana: Lanai Creeper. NatureServe Network Biodiversity Location Data accessed through NatureServe Explorer [web application]. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available at: https://explorer.natureserve.org/ [Accessed on 1 October 2026]
Roberts, D. L. and Jarić, I. (2016). Inferring extinction in North American and Hawaiian birds in the presence of sighting uncertainty. PeerJ 4: e2426.
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