Drepanis funerea

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	PASSERIFORMES	FRINGILLIDAE

Scientific Name:

Drepanis funerea

Species Authority:

Newton, 1893

Common Name/s:

English

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Black Mamo

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 is known from the Hawaiian island of Lana'i, USA, but it has not been recorded since 1907 and is now Extinct. Predation and habitat destruction by invasive species were the major factors causing its extinction.

History:

2008	–	Extinct
2004	–	Extinct
2000	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct
1988	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Drepanis funerea was only ever seen in forest understorey on Moloka`i, Hawai`i, USA, although fossils are known from the adjacent Maui (James and Olson 1991). The species was last collected in 1907 and intensive searches in the subsequent few decades could find no sign of it (Richardson 1949).
Countries:	Regionally extinct: United States
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabited the understory of wet forests where it fed on nectar.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Its extinction was probably largely caused by the destruction of its understorey habitat by introduced cattle and deer, and predation by rats and mongooses (Greenway 1967).

Major Threat(s):

Its extinction was probably largely caused by the destruction of its understorey habitat by introduced cattle and deer, and predation by rats and mongooses (Greenway 1967).

Citation:	BirdLife International 2012. Drepanis funerea. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 May 2013.
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