Eudyptes warhami Cole, Tennyson, Ksepka & Thomas, 2019
Chatham Islands penguin, Chatham Islands crested penguin
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Eudyptes ?n. sp. Tennyson & Millener, 1994: Notornis 41 (supp.): 169.; Eudyptes, species undescribed Millener 1999: Smithsonian Contrib. Paleobiology 89: 97.; Eudyptes chathamensis Thiebot, Cherel, Crawford, Makhado, Trathan, Pinaud & Bost, 2013: PLOS One 8(8) e71429: 2. Nomen nudum.; Eudyptes undescribed species Tyrberg, 2009:70
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene
An unidentified penguin was encountered between 1869-1872 (Travers & Travers, 1872:221-222), which has sometimes been suggested to refer to this taxon.
Distribution
Mangere Island & Pitt Island, Chatham Islands & east coast of mainland, New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cole, Theresa L. et al. (2019). Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 36(4): 784-797. [Abstract]
Other references:
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. 110-111]
Cole, Theresa L. (2019). Fire and ice: Genomic insights into the evolution, biogeography and extinction of modern penguins. Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy), University of Otago.
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.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Millener, P.R. 1999. The history of the Chatham Islands’ bird fauna of the last 7000 years – a chronicle of change and extinction. Pp. 85–109. In: Olson, S.L. (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, D.C., 4–7 June 1996. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 89: i–viii + 1–344.
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)]
Sutton, D. G. (1979). Island and coastal fowling strategies of the prehistoric Moriori, pp. 123-139. In: Anderson, A. (ed.). Birds of a feather. New Zealand Archaeological Association Monographs 11: BAR International. Series 62.
Tennyson, Alan J. D. (1999). Avian extinctions and fossil bones on Pitt Island, Chatham Islands. Abstracts from the 6th CAVEPS, Perth, 7-11 July, 1997. In: Baynes, Alexander and Long, John A. (eds.). Papers in vertebrate palaeontology. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 57: 419.
Tennyson, A. J. D. and Millener, P. R. (1994). Bird extinctions and fossil bones from Mangere Island, Chatham Islands. Notornis (supplement) 41: 165-178.
Travers, H. H. and Travers, W. T. L. (1872). On the birds of the Chatham Islands, with introductory remarks on the avifauna and flora of the islands in their relation to those of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 5: 212-222.
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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