Prosobonia ellisi

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	CHARADRIIFORMES	SCOLOPACIDAE

Scientific Name:

Prosobonia ellisi

Species Authority:

(Gmelin, 1789)

Common Name/s:

English

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White-winged Sandpiper

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:	Prosobonia ellisi is known only from two paintings (both in London), by Ellis and Webber, each based on a specimen (both now lost) collected by Anderson on Moorea, in the Society Islands, French Polynesia, during Cook's third voyage in 1777¹.

Range Description:

Prosobonia ellisi is known only from two paintings (both in London), by Ellis and Webber, each based on a specimen (both now lost) collected by Anderson on Moorea, in the Society Islands, French Polynesia, during Cook's third voyage in 1777¹.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Like Tahitian Sandpiper P. leucoptera, it presumably lived along streams.
Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It was presumably driven to extinction by introduced rats in the late 18th century¹.

Major Threat(s):

It was presumably driven to extinction by introduced rats in the late 18th century¹.

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