Pomarea pomarea (Lesson & Garnot, 1828)
Maupiti flycatcher, Maupiti monarch, Maupiti Island flycatcher
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Muscicapa pomarea Lesson & Garnot, 1828 (original combination); Pomarea nigra pomarea Lesson & Garnot, 1828
Now considered a synonym of Pomarea nigra (Dickinson et al., 2019).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Last record: 1823 (Holyoak & Thibault, 1984)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Maupiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Known only from a single specimen collected in 1823.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lesson and Garnot In: Lesson, René Primevère. (1828). Manuel d'ornithologie, 2 vols. Roret, Paris.
or,
Lesson, René Primevère and Garnot, P. In: Duperrey, L. I. and Lesson, René Primevère. (1828). Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les annés 1822, 1823, 1824 and 1825. Paris: Arthus Betrand
Other references:
Anonymous. (1964). List of rare birds, including those thought to be so but of which detailed information is still lacking. IUCN Bulletin 10(Special Supplement): 4 pp.
BirdLife International. 2016. Pomarea pomarea. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22724444A94867152. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22724444A94867152.en. Downloaded on 04 November 2017.
BirdLife International. 2017. Pomarea pomarea (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22724444A119193265. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22724444A119193265.en. Downloaded on 27 June 2021.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
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
Dickinson, Edward C., Lee, Michael, Cibois, Alice, Boussès, Patrick and Fuchs, Jérôme. (2019). Clarifying the nomenclature of Pomarea species (Monarchidae) from the Society Islands. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139(1): 65-74.
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.
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.
Pratt, H. D.; Bruner, P. L.; Berrett, D. G. 1987. A field guide to the birds of Hawaii and the tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
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)]
Scott, Peter (ed.). (1965). Preliminary List of Rare Mammals and Birds, pp. 155-237. In: The Launching of a New Ark. First Report of the President and Trustees of the World Wildlife Fund. An International Foundation for saving the world's wildlife and wild places 1961-1964. London: Collins.
Thibault, Jean-Claude. and Meyer, Jean-Yves. (2001). Contemporary extinction and population declines of the monarchs (Pomarea spp.) in French Polynesia, South Pacific. Oryx 35(1): 73-80.
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.
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