Turnagra capensis minor Fleming, 1915:121
Stephens Island piopio
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:212):
Turnagra capensis minor J.H. Fleming, 1915: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 38: 121 – Stephens Island.; Turnagra capensis capensis (Sparrman); Checklist Committee 1990, Checklist Birds N.Z.: 229. In part.; Turnagra capensis minor J.H. Fleming; Medway 2004, Notornis 51: 232.
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: January 1897 (Medway, 2004a)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Stephens Island, South Island, New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Fleming, J. H. (1915). A new Turnagra from Stephens’ Island, New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 28: 121-124.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Turnagra capensis. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 30 August 2013.
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Te Papa Press, Wellington. [p. 285]
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2022). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition). Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 1. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand. [p. 212]
Christidis, L.; Leeton, P. R.; Westerman, M. (1996). Were bowerbirds part of the New Zealand fauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93: 3898-3901.
Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 119-187.
Medway, David G. (2004a). The land bird fauna of Stephens Island, New Zealand in the early 1890s, and the cause of its demise. Notornis 51(4): 201-211.
Medway, David G. (2004b). Taxonomic status of the Stephens Island piopio (Turnagra capensis). Notornis 51(4): 231-232.
Oliver, W. R. B. (1955). New Zealand birds, 2nd edition. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed.
Olson, S. L.; Parkes, K. C; Clench, M. H.; Borecky, S. R. (1983). The affinities of the New Zealand passerine genus Turnagra. Notornis 30: 319-346.
Robertson, H. A., Baird, K. A., Elliott, G. P., Hitchmough, R. A., McArthur, N. J., Makan, T. D., Miskelly, Colin M., O’Donnell, C. F. J., Sagar, P. M., Scofield, R. P., Taylor, G. A. and Michel, P. (2021). Conservation status of birds in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 36. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 43 pp.
Hugh Robertson, John Dowding, Graeme Elliott, Rod Hitchmough, Colin Miskelly, Colin O’Donnell, Ralph Powlesland, Paul Sagar, Paul Scofield, Graeme Taylor. (2013). Conservation status of New Zealand birds, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 4. 22 pp.
Williams, G. R. (1962). Extinction and the land and freshwater-inhabiting birds of New Zealand. Notornis 10(1): 15-32. [p. 19]