Xenicus yaldwyni (Millener, 1988:391)
South Island stout-legged wren, Yaldwyn's wren
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pachyplichas yaldwyni Millener, 1988:391; Pachyplichas yaldwyni yaldwyni (Millener, 1988:391)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
South Island, New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: NMNZS.22683 (right tarsometatarsus)
Paratypes:
NMNZ S.22475, S.22486, S.22488, S.22501, S.22527, S.22550, S.22560, S.22567, S.22570, S.22586, S.22591, S.22609, S.22618, S.22639, S.22644, S.22683, S.22756, S.22769, S.22795, S.22808, S.22811, S.22815, S.22845, S.22851–3, S.22865, S.22869–70, S.22912, S.22924, S.22927, S.22941, S.22960, S.22966, S.22976, S.22990, S.23000, S.23015, S.23090, S.23098–103, S.23130, S.23317 (Ioane-Warren et al., 2023), S.23520–1, S.23577–9, S.23583 and S.24321
Media
Above: Stout-legged Wren. Pachyplichas yaldwyni. From the series: Extinct Birds of New Zealand., 2005, Masterton, by Paul Martinson. Purchased 2006. © Te Papa. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Te Papa (2006-0010-1/2)
References
Original scientific description:
Millener, Philip R. (1988). Contributions to New Zealand's late Quaternary avifauna. I: Pachyplichas, a new genus of wren (Aves: Acanthisittidae), with two new species. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 18: 383-406.
Other references:
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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]
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.
Ioane-Warren, Melanie et al. (2023). Augustus Hamilton’s fossil collection at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Tuhinga 34: 47-56. https://doi.org/10.3897/tuhinga.34.97731
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Mitchell, K. J., Wood, J. R., Llamas, B., McLenachan, P. A., Kardailsky, O., Paul Scofield, R., Worthy, Trevor H. and Cooper, A. (2016). Ancient mitochondrial genomes clarify the evolutionary history of New Zealand’s enigmatic acanthisittid wrens. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102: 295-304.
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