Tahiti sandpiper

Tahiti sandpiper
Forster's drawing

Extinct (1819)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Prosobonia
Species:
†P. leucoptera
Binomial name
†Prosobonia leucoptera
(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Synonyms

Tringa leucoptera Gmelin, 1789

360 degrees image of specimen RMNH.AVES.87556, Prosobonia leucoptera (Gmelin, 1789) from the collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

The Tahiti Sandpiper or Tahitian Sandpiper (Prosobonia leucoptera) is an extinct member of the large wader family Scolopacidae that was endemic to Tahiti in French Polynesia until its extinction sometime before 1819.[2]

It was discovered in 1773 during Captain Cook's second voyage, when a single specimen seems to have been collected, but it became extinct in the nineteenth century. Only one museum specimen is known to exist, held in the Aves collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center. The bird's name in the Tahitian language was transcribed as toromē.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Prosobonia leucoptera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22693330A93396439. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22693330A93396439.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Stresemann was invoked but never defined (see the help page).