Pagan reed warbler
Extinct species of bird
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The Pagan reed warbler (Acrocephalus yamashinae) is an extinct species of passerine bird in the family Acrocephalidae, sometimes considered a subspecies of the nightingale reed warbler. It originally occurred on Pagan Island and "was extinct by the late 1970s".[2] More precisely, in the 1970s, the 1980s, in 2000 and in 2010, the bird could not be found and is therefore presumed to be extinct.[3]
| Pagan Reed Warbler | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Acrocephalidae |
| Genus: | Acrocephalus |
| Species: | †A. yamashinae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Acrocephalus yamashinae (Taka-Tsukasa, 1931) | |
Taxonomy
The genus Acrocephalus was introduced in 1811 by the German naturalist Johann Andreas Naumann and his son Johann Friedrich Naumann.[4][5] Many species have a flat head profile, which gives rise to the genus name, Acrocephalus from Ancient Greek akros, "highest", and kephale, "head". It is possible that the Naumanns thought akros meant "sharp-pointed".[6] The specific epithet yamashinae commemorates the Japanese ornithologist Yoshimaro Yamashina, who founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology.
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