Acrocephalus longirostris (Gmelin)
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| Moorea Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus longirostris) |
| syn. Acrocephalus caffer longirostris (Gmelin), Turdus longirostris (Gmelin) |
| distribution: Society Islands: Mo'orea |
| local name: 'Otatare (Tahitian) |
| size: ca. 19 cm (length) extinction date: last seen in 1981 |
| Up to the present the
Reed-Warblers of the Society Archipelago were treated as subspecies of the
Tahiti Reed-Warbler (Acrocephalus caffer (Sparrman)). According to DNA analyses it is now known that the four known forms evolved from three separate colonisations. The Reed-Warbler species from the island of Mo'orea should be regarded, for that reason, as a full species. |
| References: - H. Douglas Pratt, Phillip L. Bruner, Delwyn G. Berrett: A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press 1987 - Alice Cibois; Jean-Claude Thibault; Eric Pasquet: Systematics of the extinct reed warblers Acrocephalus of the Society Islands of eastern Polynesia. Ibis (2008), 150, S. 365–376 |