Mukojima white-eye

(Redirected from Mukojima White-eye)

The Mukojima white-eye (Apalopteron familiare familiare), incorrectly known as the Mukojima honeyeater, is the extinct nominate subspecies of the Bonin white-eye (formerly Bonin honeyeater). It occurred on Muko-jima and Nakodo-jima in the northern group of the Ogasawara Islands. The last record were specimens taken in January 1930 on Muko-jima; by then, the bird was already gone from Nakodo-jima. In 1941, the subspecies was found to have gone extinct in the meantime.

Mukojima white-eye
Extinct (1930s)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Apalopteron
Species:
Subspecies:
A. f. familiare
Trinomial name
Apalopteron familiare familiare
(Kittlitz, 1830)

References

edit
  • Kittlitz, Heinrich von (1830): [Description of Apalopteron familiare] Mem. presentes a l'Acad. Imp. des Sci. de St. Petersbourg par divers savants, etc. 1(3): 235, plate 13.