Aplonis mavornata

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PASSERIFORMES	STURNIDAE

Scientific Name:

Aplonis mavornata

Species Authority:

Buller, 1887

Common Name/s:

English

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Mysterious Starling

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

History:

2004	–	Extinct
2000	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct
1988	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Aplonis mavornata is known only from the type specimen, collected on Mauke, Cook Islands, by Bloxam in 1825¹ (not on Cook's voyages²). The island was not visited by ornithologists until nearly 150 years after Bloxam's collection, by which time the species had become extinct¹.

Range Description:

Aplonis mavornata is known only from the type specimen, collected on Mauke, Cook Islands, by Bloxam in 1825¹ (not on Cook's voyages²). The island was not visited by ornithologists until nearly 150 years after Bloxam's collection, by which time the species had become extinct¹.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Nothing is known, but like other members of the genus it is likely to have inhabited the islands forests.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its extinction was presumably as a result of predation by introduced rats.

Major Threat(s):

Its extinction was presumably as a result of predation by introduced rats.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Aplonis mavornata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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