Bishop’s Oo / Moho bishopi
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Bishop's Oo
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Protonym: Acrulocercus bishopi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 1 p.41
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Mohoidae / Moho
Taxonomy Code: bisoo
Type Locality: Molokai Island.
Author: Rothschild
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status: Extinct
DEFINITIONS
MOHO
‡ (Mohoidae; Ϯ Hawaii Oo M. nobilis) Hawaiian onomatopoeic name ‘ō‘ō for the distinctive oos; "4. Les MOHOS; Moho. Bec de la longueur de la tête, fort, recourbé, pointu, à commissure bordée, à bords rentrés. Narines ovales, pointues, longitudinales, ouvertes; plumes du front écailleuses; ailes moyennes, à troisième, quatrième, cinquième rémiges les plus longues. Queue étagée, à rectrices médiocres, pointues; tarses alongé, scutellés; doigt du milieu peu prolongé au-delà des latéraux. PHILÉDON MOHO; Merops fasciculatus, Lath. Gracula nobilis, Merrem, Av. ic., fasc. I, pl. 2; Melliphaga fasciculata, Temm., pl. 471." (Vieillot 1831); "Moho Lesson, 1831, Traité Orn., p. 302. Type, by monotypy, Merops fasciculatus Latham = Gracula nobilis Merrem." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 424). The Hawaii Oo (or ‘Ō‘ō in Hawaiian orthography) was last seen in 1934. Recent work indicates that these birds were allied to the silky-flycatchers Ptiliogonatidae and waxwings Bombycillidae.
Var. Mohoa.
Synon. Acrulocercus, Mohohina, Mohornis, Pseudomoho.
bishopi
● Nathaniel Holmes Bishop (1837-1902) US explorer, founder of American Canoe Association 1880 (Catharopeza).
● Charles Reed Bishop (1822-1915) US banker, philanthropist, founder of Bernice Pauahi Mus. 1889, husband to Princess Bernice Pauahi Paki of Hawaii (‡Moho).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
