Greater ʻamakihi

Greater ʻamakihi
Specimen at the Bishop Museum

Extinct (1901)  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Viridonia
Rothschild, 1892
Species:
V. sagittirostris
Binomial name
Viridonia sagittirostris
Rothschild, 1892
Synonyms

Hemignathus sagittirostris (Rothschild, 1892)

The greater ʻamakihi (Viridonia sagittirostris) is an extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper in the subfamily Carduelinae of the family Fringillidae.

It was endemic to the Island of Hawaii. The species was last recorded in 1901.

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