Pagan reed warbler

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Pagan Reed Warbler
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acrocephalidae
Genus: Acrocephalus
Species:
†A. yamashinae
Binomial name
†Acrocephalus yamashinae
(Taka-Tsukasa, 1931)

The Pagan reed warbler (Acrocephalus yamashinae) is an extinct species of passerine bird in the family Acrocephalidae, sometimes considered a subspecies of the nightingale reed warbler. It originally occurred on Pagan Island and "was extinct by the late 1970s". [2] More precisely, in the 1970s, the 1980s, in 2000 and in 2010, the bird could not be found and is therefore presumed to be extinct. [3]

Taxonomy

The genus Acrocephalus was introduced in 1811 by the German naturalist Johann Andreas Naumann and his son Johann Friedrich Naumann. [4] [5] Many species have a flat head profile, which gives rise to the genus name, Acrocephalus from Ancient Greek akros, "highest", and kephale, "head". It is possible that the Naumanns thought akros meant "sharp-pointed". [6] The specific epithet yamashinae commemorates the Japanese ornithologist Yoshimaro Yamashina, who founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology.

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International. (2023). "Acrocephalus yamashinae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2023 e.T103780103A241594199. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T103780103A241594199.en . Retrieved 21 July 2024.
  2. ↑ BirdLife International, ed. (2015). "Species factsheet: Acrocephalus luscinius". Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Rounds, Rachel; Radley, Paul. "Nightingale Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus luscinia)". Web Page of Pacific Bird Conservation, Hawaii. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Naumann, Johann Andreas; Naumann, Johann Friedrich (1811). Naturgeschichte der Land- und Wasser-Vögel des nördlichen Deutschlands und angränzender Länder, nach eigenen Erfahrungen entworfen, und nach dem Leben gezeichnet. Nachtrag (in German). Köthen: Self-published. p. 199.
  5. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 56.
  6. ↑ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p.  30. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.


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