Maupiti monarch | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Monarchidae |
Genus: | Pomarea |
Species: | †P. maupitiensis
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Binomial name | |
†Pomarea maupitiensis (
Garnot, 1829)
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The Maupiti monarch (Pomarea maupitiensis) was a species of bird in the family Monarchidae. It was endemic to the island of Maupiti in the Society Islands ( French Polynesia). The Maupiti monarch became extinct shortly after the type specimen was collected in 1823 [2] by the French Navy officer Jules de Blosseville. At the time of its collection, it was unknown to zoologists. [3]
The Tahiti monarch was originally described in the genus Muscicapa. The Maupiti monarch was formerly considered conspecific with the Tahiti monarch until the species was split in 2012. [4] The Maupiti monarch was formerly referred to by the scientific name Pomarea pomarea (Lesson & Garnot, 1828), but that name turns out to be a junior synonym of P. nigra (Sparrman, 1785), necessitating changing the Maupiti monarch's scientific name to P. maupitiensis (Garnot, 1829). [5]