Akialoa
Appearance
Akialoa Temporal range:
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Lesser ʻakialoa (Akialoa obscura) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Fringillidae |
Subfamily: | Carduelinae |
Genus: | †Akialoa Olson & James, 1995 |
Species | |
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Akialoa is an extinct genus of Hawaiian honeycreeper in the subfamily Carduelinae of the family Fringillidae.
The birds were endemic to Hawaii.
Species
It contains the following species:
- Lesser ʻakialoa or Hawaiʻi ʻakialoa, Akialoa obscura - extinct, 1940 (island of Hawaiʻi)
- Greater ʻakialoa complex - all extinct
- Oʻahu ʻakialoa, Akialoa ellisiana — extinct, 1940 (Oʻahu)
- Maui Nui ʻakialoa or Lānaʻi ʻakialoa, Akialoa lanaiensis — extinct, 1892 (Maui, Lānaʻi, and Molokaʻi)
- Kauaʻi ʻakialoa, Akialoa stejnegeri — extinct, 1969 (Kauaʻi)
- Hoopoe-billed ʻakialoa, Akialoa upupirostris — extinct, Holocene (Kauaʻi, Oʻahu)
- Akialoa sp. - extinct, Holocene (Maui)
- Giant ʻakialoa, Akialoa sp. — extinct, Holocene (island of Hawaiʻi)
See also