Christmas sandpiper
| Christmas sandpiper | |
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| 1907 illustration by George Edward Lodge | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Prosobonia |
| Species: | †P. cancellata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Prosobonia cancellata (JF Gmelin, 1789)
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| Synonyms | |
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Tringa cancellata Gmelin, 1789 | |
The Christmas sandpiper or Kiritimati sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata) was a small
shorebird. 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.[2]
Taxonomy
The Christmas sandpiper was
Prosobonia that was introduced by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850.[6] The specific epithet cancellata is from Latin canellatus meaning "trellis-like" or "lattice-like".[7]
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William Ellis' image
References
- . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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- ^ Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1789). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 2 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer.
- ^ Latham, John (1785). A General Synopsis of Birds. Vol. 3, Part 1. London: Printed for Leigh and Sotheby. p. 274, No. 5.
- PMID 20014506.
- Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
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