Pomarea nigra tabuensis Mathews, 1929
Tonga Tabu Tahiti flyctacher
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Now considered invalid (Todd, 1984).
Conservation Status
Invalid
Last record: 1773 (Day, 1981)
Distribution
Tonga Tabu (=Tongatupu), Tongan Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Mathews, G. M. (1929). [Nomenclatorial note]. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 49: 59-60.
Other references:
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Forster, J. R. (1844). Descriptiones Animalium quae in itinere ad maris australis terres per annos 1772, 1773, et 1774 suscepto collegit observavit et delineavit J.R.F. served Berlin.
Todd, David. (1984). The Tahiti Flycatcher Pomarea nigra tabuensis in Tonga; rejection of an "extinct" subspecies. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 104: 45-47.