An extinct Austral snipe Aves: Coenocorypha from New Caledonia

Trevor H. Worthy; Atholl Anderson; Christophe Sand

doi:10.1071/MU13019

An extinct Austral snipe Aves: Coenocorypha from New Caledonia

Trevor H. Worthy, Atholl Anderson, Christophe Sand

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A new and extinct species of Austral snipe (Aves:Scolopacidae:Coenocorypha) is described from late Holocene cave deposits in New Caledonia. The new species is larger than all congeners in the New Zealand archipelago, including its subantarctic islands, but is slightly smaller than C. miratropica from Viti Levu, Fiji. Better developed ligamental sulci and attachment processes on the humerus suggest that this new species was perhaps the strongest flier in the genus. Nevertheless, it went extinct within c. 1000 years of human arrival in New Caledonia, probably as a result of depredation by the rats that arrived with humans.Journal compilation

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	383-393
Number of pages	11
Journal	Emu
Volume	113
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1071/MU13019
Publication status	Published - 2013

Keywords

Extinction
Grand Terre
Owl deposits
Prehuman avifauna
Scolopacidae

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An extinct Austral snipe Aves: Coenocorypha from New Caledonia

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