Pomarea fluxa Murphy & Mathews, 1928:7
Eiao monarch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pomarea iphis fluxa Murphy & Mathews, 1928:7
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: October 1922 (specimen); 7 August 1977 (sighting; Montgomery et al., 1980; Kittelberger et al., 2024 [as 1977])
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution & Habitat
Eiao, Marquesas islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Murphy, Robert Cushman and Mathews, Gregory M. (1928). Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. V. American Museum Novitates 337: 1-18.
Other references:
BirdLife International. 2016. Pomarea fluxa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22732926A95051671. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22732926A95051671.en. Downloaded on 04 November 2017.
Cibois, Alice, Thibault, Jean-Claude and Pasquet, E. (2004). Biogeography of Eastern Polynesian Monarchs (Pomarea): an endemic genus close to extinction. Condor 106(4): 837-851. [Abstract]
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.
del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020) Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
Faurby, Søren, Matthews, Tom J., Triantis, Kostas A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2026). Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography 2026: e08267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08267
Fisher, A. K. & Wetmore, A. 1931. Report on birds recorded by the Pinchot Expedition of 1929 to the Caribbean and the Pacific. Proceedings of the United States Natural History Museum 79: 1-66.
Holyoak, D. T. & Thibault, J.C. 1984. Contribution à l'étude des oiseaux de Polynésie orientale. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Serie A: Zoologie 127: 1-209.
Kittelberger, Kyle D., Tanner, Colby J., Buxton, Amy N., Prewett, Amira and Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı. (2024). Correlates of avian extinction timing around the world since 1500 CE. Avian Research 15: 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100213 [Supplementary data (List of 216 taxa)]
Matthews, Thomas J., Triantis, Kostas A., Wayman, Joseph P., Martin, Thomas E., Hume, Julian P., Cardoso, Pedro, Faurby, Søren, Mendenhall, Chase D., Dufour, Paul, Rigal, François, Cooke, Rob, Whittaker, Robert J., Pigot, Alex L., Thébaud, Christophe, Jørgensen, Maria Wagner, Benavides, Eva, Soares, Filipa C., Ulrich, Werner, Kubota, Yasuhiro, Sadler, Jon P., Tobias, Joseph A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2024). The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions. Science 386(6717): 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk7898 [Supplementary Materials; Dryad dataset; Zenodo codeset]
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
Montgomery, SL., Gagné, W.C & Gagné, B.H. 1980. Notes on birdlife and nature conservation in the Marquesas and Society Islands. Elepaio 40: 152-155.
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)]
Thibault, Jean-Claude. 1989. L'avifaune des îles Eiao et Hatuta'a (Polynésie, Pacifique Sud): modifications intervenues au XXe siècle. L'Oiseau et la Revue Française d'Ornithologie 59: 305.
Thibault, Jean-Claude. and Meyer, J. Y. (2001). Contemporary extinction and population declines of the monarchs (Pomarea spp.) in French Polynesia, South Pacific. Oryx 35(1): 73-80.
Thibault, Jean-Claude and Cibois, Alice. (2017). Birds of Eastern Polynesia. A Biogeographic Atlas. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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