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
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
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)]
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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