Oceanic Eclectus
Eclectus infectus
- Extinct
- Card rarity: Extinct
- Birds
The oceanic eclectus is an extinct parrot species which occurred on Tonga, Vanuatu and possibly on Fiji. Its closest living relative is the Moluccan eclectus, which has proportionally larger wings than the oceanic eclectus parrot. The fossil material unearthed in November 1989 in Late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits on 'Eua, Lifuka, 'Uiha and Vanuatu and described in 2006 by David William Steadman include a complete femur, five radii, a quadrate bone, a mandible, a coracoid, two sterna, two humeri, two ulnae, two tibiotarsi, a carpometacarpus, a tarsometatarsus, and three pedal phalanges.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Psittaculidae
- Genus
- Eclectus