Zosterops meeki Hartert, 1898:528
Tagula white-eye, Sudest white-eye, White-throated white-eye
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1990
Rediscovered in 2004 (2016?)
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Papua New Guinea
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hartert, Ernst. (1898). On the birds collected on Sudest Island in the Louisiade Archipelago by Albert S. Meek. Novitates Zoologicae 5: 521-532.
Other references:
Beehler, B. M. (1993). Biodiversity and conservation of the warm-blooded vertebrates of Papua New Guinea. In: Beehler, B.M. (ed.), Papua New Guinea - conservation needs assessment, pp. 77-121. Biodiversity Support Program, Washington, DC.
Beehler, B. M. and Pratt, T. K. (2016). Birds of New Guinea. Distribution, taxonomy, and systematics. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
BirdLife International. (2016). Zosterops meeki. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22714131A94403003. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22714131A94403003.en. Downloaded on 14 February 2017.
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. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.
LeCroy, Mary. (2011). Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae and Meliphagidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 348: 1-193.
Mayr, E. and Diamond, J. (2001). The birds of northern Melanesia; speciation, ecology and biogeography. Oxford Univ. Press.
Mitchell, David K. (2017). First photographs of the endemic Tagula White-eye [i]Zosterops meeki[/i], on Sudest Island (Louisiade Archipelago), Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 137(2): 156-158.
Pratt, T. K. and Beehler, B. M. (2015). Birds of New Guinea. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Rothschild, Walter and Hartert, Ernst. (1903). Notes on Papuan birds. XXVII, [i]Zosterops[/i]. Novitates Zoologicae 10: 435-480.
Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]