Pomarea mendozae mendozae Hartlaub, 1854
Hiva Oa monarch, Tahuata monarch (proposed), Mendoza's monarch (proposed)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Monarcha Mendozæ Hartlaub, 1854:170
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Hiva Oa (March 1975); Tahuata (November 1922; Murphy & Mathews, 1928)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Hiva Oa & Tahuata, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hartlaub, 1854, Journ. fur Ornith., p. 170.
Other references:
Cibois, A., Thibault, J.C. & Pasquet, E. 2004. Biogeography of Eastern Polynesian Monarchs (Pomarea): an endemic genus close to extinction. Condor 106: 837-851.
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.
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. [p. 221]
Murphy, Robert Cushman and Mathews, Gregory M. (1928). Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. V. American Museum Novitates 337: 1-18.
Thibault, Jean-Claude. and Meyer, J. Y. (2001). Contemporary extinction and population declines of the monarchs ([i]Pomarea[/i] 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.