Mohoidae

Hawaiian honeyeaters
Temporal range: Holocene
Moho apicalis and Chaetoptila angustipluma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Superfamily: Bombycilloidea
Family: Mohoidae
Fleischer, James and Olson, 2008
Genera

Moho
Chaetoptila

Diversity
Moho: 4

Chaetoptila: 3

Mohoidae, also known as the Hawaiian honeyeaters, was a family of Hawaiian species of now recently extinct, nectarivorous songbirds in the genera Moho (ʻōʻō) and Chaetoptila (kioea). These now extinct birds form their own family, representing the only complete extinction of an entire avian family in modern times,[1] when the disputed family Turnagridae is regarded as invalid. The last surviving species in the family, the Kauai O'o (Moho braccatus), became extinct after 1987.

  1. ^ Lovette, Irby J. (2008). "Convergent Evolution: Raising a Family from the Dead". Current Biology. 18 (24): R1132–4. Bibcode:2008CBio...18R1132L. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.11.006. PMID 19108768.