Viridonia sagittirostris Rothschild, 1892
Greater 'Amakihi, Greater Amakihi, Green solitaire
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hemignathus sagittirostris (Rothschild, 1892); Viridonia sagittirostris ssp. sagittirostris Rothschild, 1892; Loxops sagittirostris Rothschild, 1892
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1901
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Big Island, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rothschild, W. (1892). Description of seven new species of birds from the Sandwich Islands. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 10: 108-112.
Other references:
Amadon, D. 1950. The Hawaiian Honeycreepers (Aves: Dendrepaniidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 95: 151-262.
BirdLife International. (2016). Viridonia sagittirostris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22720784A94682950. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22720784A94682950.en. Downloaded on 16 December 2016.
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.
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Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.
Greenway James C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Special Publication no 13, 2nd edn. Dover Publications, New York.
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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)]
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Vargas, Pablo. (2023). Exploring ‘endangered living fossils’ (ELFs) among monotypic genera of plants and animals of the world. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1100503. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1100503
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