Pterodroma rupinarum Olson, 1975:14
Large St. Helena petrel, Large Saint Helena petrel, St Helena gadfly petrel, Saint Helena gadfly petrel
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pterodroma rupinarum Olson, 1975:14; Pseudobulweria rupinarum Olson, 1975:14; Pterodroma sp. Ashmole, 1963:398
Confirmed as belonging to Pterodroma by (Welch et al., 2014).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: subfossil remains (Holocene?); 1502 (Kittelberger et al., 2024)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Presumed to have become extinct after European settlement in 1502 (Olson, 1975).
Distribution
St. Helena
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: USNM 176594
Type locality: "Prosperous Bay, St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean."
Paratypes series:
USNM 176203 to 176593
USNM 176595 to 176718
BMNH S/1963.25.7
BMNH S/1963.25.10
BMNH S/1963.25.11
Other specimens:
USNM 176274 ("nearly complete skull and mandible")
Media
For a photograph of a sub-fossil skull, see: http://kidstonmill.org.uk/St%20Helena%20Petrel%20fossil%20skull.htm
References
Original scientific description:
Olson, Storrs L. (1975). Palaeornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, No. 23: 1-49.
Other references:
Ashmole, N. P. (1963). The extinct avifauna of St Helena Island. Ibis 103b(3): 390-408.
BirdLife International. (2012). Pterodroma rupinarum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 13 April 2014.
BirdLife International. (2014). Species factsheet: Pterodroma rupinarum. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 13/04/2014.
BirdLife International. 2016. Pterodroma rupinarum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22728800A94996980. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728800A94996980.en. Accessed on 19 June 2022.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened birds of the world, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
del Monte-Luna, Pablo et al. (2023). A review of recent and future marine extinctions. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 1: e13. https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2023.11
Dulvy, Nicholas K., Pinnegar, John K. and Reynolds, John D. (2009). Holocene extinctions in the sea, pp. 129-150. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.
Kittelberger, Kyle D., Tanner, Colby J., Buxton, Amy N., Prewett, Amira and Şekercioğlu, Çağan Hakkı. (2024). Correlates of avian extinction timing around the world since 1500 CE. Avian Research 15: 100213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2024.100213 [Supplementary data (List of 216 taxa)]
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)]
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.
Welch, A. J., Olson, Storrs L. and Fleischer, R. C. (2014). Phylogenetic relationships of the extinct St Helena petrel, Pterodroma rupinarum Olson, 1975 (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae), based on ancient DNA. Special Issue: Birds: systematics and phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170(3): 494-505. [Abstract]
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