Pagan reed warbler

The Pagan reed warbler (Acrocephalus yamashinae) is an extinct species of passerine bird in the family Acrocephalidae, sometimes considered a subspecies of the nightingale reed warbler. It originally occurred on Pagan Island and "was extinct by the late 1970s".^[2] More precisely, in the 1970s, the 1980s, in 2000 and in 2010, the bird could not be found and is therefore presumed to be extinct.^[3]

Pagan Reed Warbler
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Acrocephalidae
Genus:	Acrocephalus
Species:	†A. yamashinae
Binomial name
†Acrocephalus yamashinae (Taka-Tsukasa, 1931)

Taxonomy

The genus Acrocephalus was introduced in 1811 by the German naturalist Johann Andreas Naumann and his son Johann Friedrich Naumann.^[4][5] Many species have a flat head profile, which gives rise to the genus name, Acrocephalus from Ancient Greek akros, "highest", and kephale, "head". It is possible that the Naumanns thought akros meant "sharp-pointed".^[6] The specific epithet yamashinae commemorates the Japanese ornithologist Yoshimaro Yamashina, who founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology.