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Xenicus gilviventris ssp. nov.

North Island rock wren

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct or invalid

 

Distribution

North Island, New Zealand

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

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. 202]

Millener, P.R. 1990. Evolution, extinction and the subfossil record of New Zealand’s avifauna. Pp. 93–100. In: Gill, B.J. & Heather, B.D. (Eds). A flying start. Commemorating fifty years of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. 1940–1990. Auckland: Random Century. x + 217 pp.

Verry, A.J.F.; Scarsbrook, L.; Scofield, R.P.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Weston, K.A.; Robertson, B.C. & Rawlence, N.J. 2019. Who, where, what, wren? Using ancient DNA to examine the veracity of museum specimen data: a case study of the New Zealand rock wren (Xenicus gilviventris). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Paleoecology). doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00496

Worthy, Trevor H. and Holdaway, Richard N. (2002). The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. xxxiii + 718 pp.

 

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