Pterodroma imberi Tennyson, Cooper & Shepherd, 2015

Imber's petrel, Imbers' petrel

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:138):

Pterodroma inexpectata (J.R. Forster); Bourne 1967, Ibis 109: 57. In part.; Pterodroma inexpectata (J.R. Forster); Checklist Committee 1990, Checklist Birds N.Z.: 51. In part.; Pterodroma sp. 1 Tennyson & Millener, 1994: Notornis 41 (supp.): 168. & Holdaway et al. 2001:128; Pterodroma undescribed species (Tyrberg, 2009:71); Pterodroma imberi Tennyson, Cooper & Shepherd, 2015: Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 135: 273 – Pitt Island, Chatham Islands.

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene (1800's?)

Distribution

Chatham, Pitt and Mangere Islands, Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Tennyson, Alan J. D., Cooper, Joanne H. and Shepherd, L. D. (2015). A new species of Pterodroma petrel (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Bull BOC 135(3): 267-277.

Other references:

Bourne, W. R. P. (1967). Subfossil petrel bones from the Chatham Islands. Ibis 109(1): 1-7. [Abstract]

Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2022). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition). Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 1. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand. [p. 138]

Cooper, Joanne H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2004). Wrecks and residents: the subfossil gadfly petrels (Pterodroma spp.) of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, pp. 17. In: Buffetaut, Eric and Loeuff, Jean Le (eds.). Sixth International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, 28 September-3 October, 2004, Quillan, France. 70 pp.

Cooper, Joanne H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2008). Wrecks and residents: the fossil gadfly petrels (Pterodroma spp.) of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Oryctos 7: 227-248.

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

Holdaway, Richard N., Worthy, Trevor H. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2001). A working list of breeding bird species of the New Zealand region at first human contact. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 119-187.

Millener, P. R. (1996). Extinct birds, pp. 113-120. In: Anonymous (ed.) The Chatham Islands: heritage and conservation. Christchurch, Canterbury University Press and New Zealand Department of Conservation. 136 pp.

Millener PR (1999) The history of the Chatham Islands’ bird fauna of the last 7000 years—a chronicle of change and extinction. In Olson SL, ed., Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington DC ., 4–7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89, 85–109.

Miskelly, Colin M., Forsdick, Natalie J., Gill, Brian J., Palma, Ricardo L., Rawlence, Nicolas J. and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2022). Amendments to the 2010 Checklist of the birds of New Zealand. Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 2. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand.

Robertson, H. A., Baird, K. A., Elliott, G. P., Hitchmough, R. A., McArthur, N. J., Makan, T. D., Miskelly, Colin M., O’Donnell, C. F. J., Sagar, P. M., Scofield, R. P., Taylor, G. A. and Michel, P. (2021). Conservation status of birds in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 36. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 43 pp.

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)]

Tennyson, A. J. D. and Millener, P. R. (1994). Bird extinctions and fossil bones from Mangere Island, Chatham Islands. Notornis (supplement) 41: 165-178.

Turbott, E. G. (Convener). (1990). Checklist of the birds of New Zealand and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica, 3rd. ed. Auckland, Random Century and the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. 247 pp.

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 TH and Holdaway RN (2002) The Lost World of the Moa. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

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