Tasidyptes hunteri van Tets & O'Conner, 1983
Hunter Island penguin
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
This species was previously considered possibly invalid (Fordyce & Jones, 1990), and is now evidently invalid (Cole et al., 2017).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Last record: c.1250 AD
Distribution
Hunter Island, Tasmania, Australia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
van Tets, Gerry F. and O'Conner, S. (1983). The Hunter Island penguin, an extinct new genus and species from a Tasmanian Midden. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 81: 1-13.
Other references:
Cole, Theresa L., Waters, Jonathan M., Shepherd, Lara D., Rawlence, Nicolas J., Joseph, Leo and Wood, Jamie R. (2017). Ancient DNA reveals that the ‘extinct’ Hunter Island penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is not a distinct taxon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx043 [Abstract]
Fordyce, R. E. and Jones, C. M. (1990). Penguin history and new fossil material from New Zealand. In Davis, L. S. and J. T. Darby. editors. Penguin biology. 419-446. San Diego, CA Academic Press.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Ksepka, D. T. and Clarke, J. A. (2010). The basal penguin (Aves: Sphenisciformes) Perudyptes devriesi and a phylogenetic evaluation of the penguin fossil record. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 337: 1-77.
Meredith CW (1991) Vertebrate fossil faunas from islands in Australasia and the southwest Paci5 c. In Vickers-Rich P, Monaghan JM, Baird RF, and Rich TH, eds, Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia, pp. 1345–1382. Monash University Publications Committee, Melbourne.
Park, Travis and Fitzgerald, Erich M. G. (2012). A review of Australian fossil penguins (Aves: Sphenisciformes). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 69: 309-325.
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.