Christmas sandpiper

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Christmas sandpiper
Tuamotu Sandpiper.png
1907 illustration by George Edward Lodge

Extinct  (c.1800?) (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Scolopacidae
Genus: Prosobonia
Species:
P. cancellata
Binomial name
Prosobonia cancellata
JF Gmelin, 1789
Synonyms

Tringa cancellata Gmelin, 1789
Aechmorhynchus cancellatus
Prosobonia cancellatus Collar and Andrew, 1988
Prosobonia cancellata

The Christmas sandpiper or Kiritimati sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata) was a small shorebird.[1][2] It became extinct some time in the first half of the 19th century. It was endemic to Christmas Island (now also Kiritimati), since 1919 part of Kiribati. It is known solely from a single contemporaneous illustration (by William Wade Ellis), and a description by William Anderson, both made during the third circumnavigation voyage commanded by Captain James Cook, which visited the atoll of Christmas Island between 24 December 1777 and 2 January 1778.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2017). "Prosobonia cancellata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T62289108A119208101. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T62289108A119208101.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P. (eds.). "Family Scolopacidae". IOC World Bird List. International Ornithological Congress. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  3. ^ Jansen, Justin J.F.J.; Cibois, Alice (22 June 2020). "Clarifying the morphology of the enigmatic Kiritimati Sandpiper Prosobonia cancellata (J. F. Gmelin, 1785), based on a review of the contemporary data". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 140 (1): 142-146. doi:10.25226/bboc.v140i2.2020.a4.
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