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Zosterops conspicillatus Kittlitz, 1833:15

Guam bridled white-eye

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Zosterops conspicillata conspicillata Kittlitz, 1833:15; Zosterops conspicillatus conspicillatus Kittlitz, 1833:15; Dicaeum conspicillatum Kittlitz, 1833:15

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1983 (Suckling et al., 2004)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

 

Distribution

Guam

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Kittlitz F.H. von. (1833). Kupfertafeln zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel. Part 2. – Frankfurt am Main: Johann David Sauerländer, pp. 9-20, pls. 13-24.

 

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2012). Zosterops conspicillatus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 19 August 2013.

BirdLife International. 2017. Zosterops conspicillatus (amended version of 2016 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T103889155A117351603. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103889155A117351603.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Christie, D. (2008). Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 13: Penduline-tits to Shrikes. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.

del Hoyo, J., et al. (2020) Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA

Kittlitz F.H. von, (1830). Verzeichniß sämtlicher zu Bälgen preparirter Thiere, die durch Unterzeichneten der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften sind übergeben worden. – Unpublished manuscript, deposited in the Department of Ornithology, Institute of Zoology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Mees, G. F. (1969). A systematic review of the Indo-Australian Zosteropidae (Part iii). Zoologische Verhandelingen 102: 1-390.

Mlíkovský, Jiří and Loskot, V. M. (2016). Type specimens and type localities of birds (Aves) collected during Friedrich Heinrich von Kittlitz’s circumnavigation in 1826-1829. Part 1. Specimens in the collections of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 185: 77-137.

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)]

Suckling, Kieran, Slack, Rhiwena and Nowicki, Brian. (2004). Extinct and the Endangered Species Act. Centre For Biological Diversity. 63 pp.

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