Sinoto's Lorikeet

Vini sinotoi is an extinct Loriart from the kind of Maidloris ( Vini ). She came before the Marquesas and on Huahine. The specific epithet honors the American anthropologist Yosihiko H. Sinoto Bernice P. Bishop Museum of Honolulu, Hawaii, who promoted the holotype to light in July 1964 Ua Huka.

Features

The holotype is a complete tarsometatarsus of the deposit Hane on Ua Huka. In addition to other skeletal remains of H. Yosihiko Sinoto in the deposit Hane in the years 1964 and 1965 subfossiles additional material was discovered in 1967 by Peter Bellwood in the deposit Hanatekua on Hiva Oa and 1985 by Barry Vladimir Rolett in the deposit Hanamiai on Tahuata. Further material from the reference Faahia on the island Huahine is known. The classified as paratypes finds consist of seven raven bones, a shoulder blade, five humerus, 34 Tibiotarsi, 49 Tarsometatarsi, a toe bone, a rostrum, two square feet, four mandibles, three thoracic legs and a Carpometacarpus. Based on the Tarsometatarsuslängen 21.6 to 24.0 mm and the Tibiotarsuslängen 31.3 to 33.4 mm, it is believed that represented Vini sinotoi the largest species of Maidloris.

Extinction

Since the material was found in the same stratigraphic deposits, such as the bones of extinct species also Vini Vidivici is believed a Aussterbezeitraum 1000-1200 n AD, shortly after the Marquesas were settled for the first time.