Vangulifer mirandus James & Olson, 1991

Kiwi shovel-billed finch

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene?

Distribution

Hawaiian Islands, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. (1991). Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 46: 1-88.

Other references:

James, Helen F. (2004). The osteology and phylogeny of the Hawaiian ﬁnch radiation (Fringillidae: Drepanidini), including extinct taxa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 207-255, 17 figs.

James HF, Stafford Jr TW, Steadman DW, Olson SL, Martin PS, Jull AJT, and McCoy PC (1987) Radiocarbon dates on bones of extinct birds from Hawaii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 84, 2350–2354.

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)]

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/8887/vangulifer-mirandus-shovel-billed-finch

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