Mukojima White-eye

Mukojima White-eye
Mukojima White-eye
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Apalopteron
Species: A. familiare
Subspecies: A. f. familiare
Trinomial name
Apalopteron familiare familiare
(Kittlitz, 1830)

The Mukojima White-eye (Apalopteron familiare familiare), incorrectly known as the Mukojima Honeyeater, is the extinct nominate subspecies of the Bonin White-eye (formerly Bonin Honeyeater). It occurred on Muko-jima and Nakodo-jima in the northern group of the Ogasawara Islands. The last record were specimens taken in January 1930 on Muko-jima; by then, the bird was already gone from Nakodo-jima. In 1941, the subspecies was found to have gone extinct in the meantime.

References

  • Kittlitz, Heinrich von (1830): [Description of Apalopteron familiare] Mem. presentes a l'Acad. Imp. des Sci. de St. Petersbourg par divers savants, etc. 1(3): 235, plate 13.