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Cyanoramphus zealandicus

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family
ANIMALIA CHORDATA AVES PSITTACIFORMES PSITTACIDAE

Scientific Name: Cyanoramphus zealandicus
Species Authority: (Latham, 1790)
Common Name/s:
English – Black-fronted Parakeet

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria: Extinct ver 3.1
Year Published: 2012
Assessor/s: BirdLife International
Reviewer/s: Butchart, S. & Symes, A.
Contributor/s:
Justification:
This species was known from Tahiti, French Polynesia, but it has not been recorded since 1844 and is now Extinct. Possible causes include deforestation, hunting and predation by introduced species.
History:
2008 – Extinct
2004 – Extinct
2000 – Extinct
1994 – Extinct
1988 – Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description: Cyanoramphus zealandicus is known from Tahiti, French Polynesia, from three specimens (two of which are now in Liverpool and one in Tring) collected on Cook's voyage in 1773, a fourth collected by Amadis in 1842, now in Perpignanand a fifth collected by de Marolles in 1844, now in Paris (Voisin et al. 1995).

Countries:
Regionally extinct:
French Polynesia
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology: Like Raiatea Parakeet C. uleitanus, the species was presumably a forest bird (Forshaw and Cooper 1989).

Systems: Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s): Its demise could have resulted from habitat loss, hunting or predation by introduced species (Forshaw and Cooper 1989).

Citation: BirdLife International 2012. Cyanoramphus zealandicus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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