Cyanoramphus ulietanus

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PSITTACIFORMES	PSITTACIDAE

Scientific Name:

Cyanoramphus ulietanus

Species Authority:

(Gmelin, 1788)

Common Name/s:

English

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Raiatea Parakeet

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:	Cyanoramphus ulietanus is only known from two specimens from Raiatea, French Polynesia¹, collected on Cook's voyage in 1773, and now in Vienna and Tring².

Range Description:

Cyanoramphus ulietanus is only known from two specimens from Raiatea, French Polynesia¹, collected on Cook's voyage in 1773, and now in Vienna and Tring².

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It was presumably a forest species, as this was the native vegetation of all of the Society Islands¹.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its extinction was probably the result of the clearance of the islands' forests, hunting, or predation by introduced species¹.

Major Threat(s):

Its extinction was probably the result of the clearance of the islands' forests, hunting, or predation by introduced species¹.

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