Pomarea nukuhivae (Murphy & Mathews, 1928:5)
Nuku Hiva monarch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pomarea mendozæ nukuhivae Murphy & Mathews, 1928:5 (original combination); Pomarea mendozae nukuhivae (Murphy & Mathews, 1928:5)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: October 1922 (specimen; Murphy & Mathews, 1928); 1930's (sighting; Thibault & Meyer, 2001); 1975 (unconfirmed sightings; BirdLife International, 2016)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Nuku Hiva (=Nukuhiva), 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 nukuhivae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22732936A95052074. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22732936A95052074.en. Downloaded on 04 November 2017.
Cibois A., Thibault J.-C. & Pasquet E., 2004: Biogeography of eastern Polynesia monarchs (Pomarea): an endemic genus close to extinction. Condor 106(4): 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.
del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020) Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA
Ghiraldi, Luca and Aimassi, Giorgio. (2019). Extinct and endangered (‘E&E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139(1): 28-45.
Gouraud, Christophe. (2014). Extinct and endangered species and subspecies of birds in the Baillon Collection, La Châtre, France. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 183(3): 29-38.
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.
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. 221-222]
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)]
Seitre, R.; Seitre, J. 1992. Causes of land-bird extinctions in French Polynesia. Oryx 26: 215-222.
SPREP. 1999. Proceedings of the Polynesian Avifauna Conservation Workshop held in Rarotonga, 26-30 April 1999.
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.
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