Marianne white-eye

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Marianne white-eye
Illustrated by Henrik Grønvold
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Zosteropidae
Genus: Zosterops
Species:
†Z. semiflavus
Binomial name
†Zosterops semiflavus
E. Newton, 1867
Marianne Island in red (top right)
Synonyms
  • Zosterops mayottensis semiflava

The Marianne white-eye (Zosterops semiflavus), also known as Seychelles chestnut-sided white-eye or Seychelles yellow white-eye, is an extinct species of small bird in the white-eye family.

Taxonomy

IOC restored it to a full species.[2]
The IUCN recognized it as full species in 2016.

Description

It reached a size of 10 cm (3.9 in), the wing length was 5.8 to 6.3 cm (2.3 to 2.5 in), the length of the tail was 3.8 cm (1.5 in) and the length of the culmen 1.1 to 1.2 cm (0.43 to 0.47 in). It was generally greenish yellow with chestnut-coloured flanks and a conspicuous white eye-ring. The forehead and a line above the eyes were yellow. The top of the head and the back were yellow olive. The wings and the tail were black and the underparts were pale yellow. It was similar in appearance to the Mayotte race of the Malagasy white-eye (Zosterops maderaspatanus mayottensis). Nothing is known of its ecology.[3]

Distribution and habitat

It is known with certainty only from the small granitic islet of

IUCN around 1888). An expedition in 1940 led by Irish zoologist Desmond Vesey-Fitzgerald failed to find it. There is one specimen in the Natural History Museum in London.[4]

Footnotes

  1. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03058.x
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  2. ^ IOC World Bird list Archived 2010-03-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ISBN 978-0-7136-6532-1
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  4. PMID 20504327
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References

  • Greenway, James C. (1967): Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World
  • Luther, Dieter (2005): Die ausgestorbenen Vögel der Welt
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