Maupiti monarch
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Maupiti Monarch (bottom right) |
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The Maupiti monarch ( Pomarea maupitiensis ) is an extinct species of bird from the monarch family . Until 2004 it was considered a subspecies of the Tahitian monarch ( Pomarea nigra ). The generic epithet honors Pomaré II , who was King of Tahiti from 1791 to 1821.
features
The Maupiti monarch is only known from the male holotype, which was collected by Jules Poret de Blosseville in 1823 during an expedition of the Corvette Coquille on Maupiti and was later lost. The male's plumage was black and white. The beak, legs and feet were black.
Systematics
In the past, the scientific name Pomarea pomarea was used, which is now regarded as a junior synonym of Pomarea nigra , since the pure black specimens of the originally compound series on which P. pomarea was based came from Tahiti and not from Maupiti. P. maupitiensis is based on the black and white piebald male of the originally composite type series, which was collected on Maupiti and which was classified as a lectotype for this sexually bi-colored species.
die out
Reasons for its extinction are probably the reenactment by invasive mammals, the competition with invasive birds, forest destruction and the displacement of the breeding trees by invasive plant species. The only remaining evidence of the species is a drawing by Prosper Garnot and René Primevère Lesson depicting an old male.
literature
- René Primevère Lesson, Prosper Garnot: Voyage autour du monde exécuté par Ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère et conformément aux instructions de SEM Marquis de Clermont- Tonnerre, ministre de la marine; et publié sou les auspices de son excellence Mgr le Cte de Chabrol, ministre de la Marine et des colonies, par ML Dupppery, capitaine de frégate. chevalier de Saint-Louis et membre de la legion d'honaire, commandant de l'expédition . tape 1 : Zoology , No. 1 . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1828 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- David Thomas Holyoak, Jean-Claude Thibault: Contribution à l'étude des oiseaux de Polynésie orientale Mémoires du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle., Série A, Zoologie, nouv. sér., t. 127., Paris: Éditions du Muséum, 1984.
- Michael P. Walters & Julian Pender Hume: Extinct Birds , Poyser Monographes A & C Black, 2012. ISBN 978-140-815-725-1 . P. 241
Web links
- Pomarea pomarea inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015.4. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2012. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- Biogeography of Eastern Polynesian Monarchs (Pomarea): an Endemic Genus Close to Extinction