Pseudobulweria sp. nov. ‘Mangareva’

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Pterodroma cf. leucoptera; Pterodroma sp. nov. ‘Mangareva’; Pseudobulweria undescribed species (Tyrberg, 2009:61)

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1922 (Thibault & Bretagnolle, 1999)

Distribution

Mangareva, Gambier Islands

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Kirch PV (2007) Three islands and an archipelago: reciprocal interactions between humans and island ecosystems in Polynesia. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 98, 85–99.

Kirch, P.V., et al. (2010) Archaeology in Oceania, 45, 66–79.

Rigal, Stanislas, Kirch, Patrick V. and Worthy, Trevor H. (2018). New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.3.43.

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)]

Thibault, Jean-Claude and Bretagnolle, Vincent. (1999). Breeding Seabirds of Gambier Islands, Eastern Polynesia: Numbers and Changes during the 20th Century. Emu 99(2): 100-107. [Abstract]

Thibault, Jean-Claude and Cibios, Alice. (2012). From Early Polynesian Settlements to the Present: Bird Extinctions in the Gambier Islands. Pacific Science 66(3): 271-281. [Abstract]

Thibault, J.-C. and Cibois, A. 2017. Birds of Eastern Polynesia. A biogeographic atlas. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

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.

Worthy, T.H. and Tennyson, A.J.D. 2004. Avifaunal assemblages from the Nenega-Iti and Onemea sites. pp. 122-127. Chapter 6. In Conte, E.and Kirch, P.V. (eds.) Archaeological investigations in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia. Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley, California.

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