Mukojima White-eye
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| Mukojima White-eye | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Zosteropidae |
| Genus: | Apalopteron |
| Species: | A. familiare |
| Subspecies: | A. f. familiare |
| Trinomial name | |
| Apalopteron familiare familiare (Kittlitz, 1830) |
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The Mukojima White-eye (Apalopteron familiare familiare), incorrectly known as the Mukojima Honeyeater, is the extinct nominate subspecies of the Bonin White-eye (formerly Bonin Honeyeater). It occurred on Muko-jima and Nakodo-jima in the northern group of the Ogasawara Islands. The last record were specimens taken in January 1930 on Muko-jima; by then, the bird was already gone from Nakodo-jima. In 1941, the subspecies was found to have gone extinct in the meantime.
[edit] References
- Kittlitz, Heinrich von (1830): [Description of Apalopteron familiare] Mem. presentes a l'Acad. Imp. des Sci. de St. Petersbourg par divers savants, etc. 1(3): 235, plate 13.
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