Cyanoramphus zealandicus Latham, 1790:102

Black-fronted parakeet, Tahiti parakeet, Tahiti black-fronted parakeet

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: 1844 (Day, 1981:83; Voisin et al. 1995; Kittelberger et al., 2024)

IUCN RedList status: Extinct

Distribution

Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

"Cyanoramphus zealandicus is known...from three specimens (two of which are now in Liverpool and one in Tring) collected on Cook's voyage in 1773, a fourth collected by Amadis in 1842, now in Perpignan and a fifth collected by de Marolles in 1844, now in Paris."

(BirdLife International, 2008)

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Latham, J. A. (1790). Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiae; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. London: Leigh & Sotheby.

Other references:

BirdLife International. (2008). Cyanoramphus zealandicus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 January 2012.

BirdLife International. 2016. Cyanoramphus zealandicus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22685182A93061882. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22685182A93061882.en. Accessed on 02 July 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.

Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.

Des Murs, O. (1845). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'oiseaux. Revue Zoologique 8: 207-209.

Des Murs, O. (1849). Iconographie ornithologique; nouveau recueil général de planches peintes d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées des Buff on et aux planches coloriées de MM. Temminck et Laugier de Chartrouse. Paris: Klincksiek F.

Forshaw, J. M.; Cooper, W. T. 1989. Parrots of the world. Blandford Press, London.

Forshaw, Joseph M. and Knight, Frank. (2017). Vanished and Vanishing Parrots: Profiling Extinct and Endangered Species. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.

Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.

Greenway James C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Special Publication no 13, 2nd edn. Dover Publications, New York.

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.

Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.

Jouanin, Christian. (1962). Inventaire des oiseaux éteints ou en voie d’extinction conservés au Muséum de Paris. Terre et Vie 109: 275-301.

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)]

Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 149]

Latham, J. A. (1781). A general synopsis of birds, volume 1. London: Benjamin White.

Lysaght, A. (1959). Sorne Eighteenth Century Bird Paintings in the Library of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), (Hist. Ser.), 1 : 251-371.

Pratt, H.D., Bruner, P.L. and Berrett, D.G. (1987). A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 69]

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.

Viellot, L. J. P. (1823). Ornithologie. Tom 3 in Bonnaterre P.J. & Viellot, L. J. P. (eds.). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Paris: Agasse.

Voisin, Claire, Voisin, Jean Francois, and Mary, D. (1995). A fifth specimen of the Tahiti Parakeet. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 115: 262-263.

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