Huahine gull
| Huahine gull Temporal range: Late Holocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Laridae |
| Genus: | Chroicocephalus |
| Species: | †C. utunui
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| Binomial name | |
| †Chroicocephalus utunui (Steadman, 2002)
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The Huahine gull.
The site is an early
anthropogenic material, the remains of many species of birds now either globally or locally extinct, that were killed for their flesh, bones or feathers. The gull was described (as Larus utunui) from 12 bones from two individual birds. Osteological similarities suggest that the nearest living relative of the Huahine gull is the silver gull (C. novaehollandiae), the nearest extant populations of which are in New Zealand, 3,800 km south-west of Huahine.[3]
References
- ^ "Larus utunui Steadman, 2002". INPN. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
- ^ Samuel T. Turvey, ed. (2009). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford University Press. p. 85.
- ^ Steadman, David W. (2002). "A new species of gull (Laridae: Larus) from an archeological site on Huahine, Society Islands". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 115: 1–17.