Nycticorax sp. nov. ‘Mangaia’

Mangaia night heron, Cook Islands night-heron

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Nycticorax undescribed species C (Tyrberg, 2009:63)

Conservation Status

Extinct

Distribution

Mangaia, Cook Islands, New Zealand

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Hume, Julian Pender. (In Press, 2023). Osteological and historical data on extinct island night herons (Aves: Ardeidae), with special reference to Ascension Island, the Mascarenes and Bonin Islands. Geobios. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.01.009

Steadman, David W. (2006). Extinction and Biogeography in tropical Pacific birds. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press.

Steadman DW and Kirch PV (1990) Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 87: 9605-9609.

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

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