†Didunculus placopedetes Steadman 2006 (Tongan tooth-billed pigeon)
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Aves - Columbiformes - Columbidae
Full reference: D. W. Steadman. 2006. An extinct species of tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus) from the Kingdom of Tonga, and the concept of endemism in insular landbirds. Journal of Zoology 268:233-241
Belongs to Didunculus according to T. H. Worthy et al. 2015
See also Steadman 2006 and Worthy and Burley 2019
Sister taxon: Didunculus strigirostris
Type specimen: UF 50641, a mandible. Its type locality is That Cave, Eua, which is in a Holocene cave siliciclastic in Tonga.
Ecology: volant frugivore-granivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tonga (13 collections), Vanuatu (1)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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