Pachyplichas jagmi

Pachyplichas jagmi is an extinct species of New Zealand wren, a family of small birds endemic to New Zealand.

Pachyplicas jagmi
Temporal range: Early Holocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthisittidae
Genus: †Pachyplichas
Species:
†P. jagmi
Binomial name
†Pachyplichas jagmi
Millener, 1988

History and etymology

The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus (AU 7102.20 in the collections of the Auckland University Geology Department) collected on 25 August 1978 from the Ruakuri Cave in the Waitomo District of North Island of New Zealand. The specific epithet honours Dr John Grant-Mackie, Associate Professor of Geology at Auckland University, in recognition of his support for graduate students and for contributions to avian palaeontology.[1]

Description

This wren is similar to, though smaller than, its congener from South Island, the stout-legged wren (Pachyplichas yaldwyni), with which it forms a species pair. Its reduced wings and robust legs indicates that it was strongly adapted to a terrestrial existence and was either flightless or nearly so.[1]

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References

Notes
  1. Millener (1988).

Sources
  • Millener, P.R. (1988). "Contributions to New Zealand's Late Quaternary avifauna. 1: Pachyplichas, a new genus of wren (Aves: Acanthisittidae), with two new species". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 18: 383–406. doi:10.1080/03036758.1988.10426464.


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