Henderson sandpiper

Small extinct Polynesian sandpiper shorebird

Henderson sandpiper
Conservation status
Extinct (ca. 1000 AD)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Scolopacidae
Genus:	Prosobonia
Species:	†P. sauli
Binomial name
†Prosobonia sauli De Pietri et al., 2020

The Henderson sandpiper (Prosobonia sauli) is a small extinct Polynesian sandpiper shorebird first described in 2020.^[1] It was described from subfossil remains found in 1991 and 1992 on Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands. It went extinct no earlier than the eleventh century (1000s), soon after humans arrived on Henderson Island. It is possible that these humans brought with them the Polynesian rat, which Polynesian sandpiper populations are very vulnerable to,^[2] causing the animal to go extinct.^[3]

References

^ Vanesa L. De Pietri; Trevor H. Worthy; R. Paul Scofield; Theresa L. Cole; Jamie R. Wood; Kieren J. Mitchell; Alice Cibois; Justin J. F. J. Jansen; Alan J. Cooper; Shaohong Feng; Wanjun Chen; Alan J. D. Tennyson; Graham M. Wragg (2020). "A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192 (4): 1045–1070. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa115.
^ Fuller, Errol (1987). Extinct Birds. Facts on File Publications. pp. 94. ISBN 0816018332.
^ C, Hannah (2020-11-17). "Fossil Evidence Describe a New Species of the Polynesian Sandpiper". Science Times. Retrieved 2021-01-24.

Sandpipers (family: Scolopacidae)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes

Scolopacidae (Numeniinae–Limosinae–Arenariinae)

Numeniinae

Bartramia	Upland sandpiper (B. longicauda)
Numenius (Curlews)	Long-billed curlew (N. americanus) Eurasian curlew (N. arquata) Eskimo curlew (N. borealis) Hudsonian whimbrel (N. hudsonicus) Far Eastern curlew (N. madagascariensis) Little curlew (N. minutus) Eurasian whimbrel (N. phaeopus) Bristle-thighed curlew (N. tahitiensis) Slender-billed curlew (N. tenuirostris)

Limosinae

Limosa (Godwits)	Marbled godwit (L. fedoa) Hudsonian godwit (L. haemastica) Bar-tailed godwit (L. lapponica) Black-tailed godwit (L. limosa)

Arenariinae

Arenaria (Turnstones)	Ruddy turnstone (A. interpres) Black turnstone (A. melanocephala)
Prosobonia	Tuamotu sandpiper (P. parvirostris) Henderson sandpiper (P. sauli)
Calidris	Sharp-tailed sandpiper (C. acuminata) Sanderling (C. alba) Dunlin (C. alpina) Baird's sandpiper (C. bairdii) Red knot (C. canutus) Broad-billed sandpiper (C. falcinellus) Curlew sandpiper (C. ferruginea) White-rumped sandpiper (C. fuscicollis) Stilt sandpiper (C. himantopus) Purple sandpiper (C. maritima) Western sandpiper (C. mauri) Pectoral sandpiper (C. melanotos) Little stint (C. minuta) Least sandpiper (C. minutilla) Rock sandpiper (C. ptilocnemis) Ruff (C. pugnax) Semipalmated sandpiper (C. pusilla) Spoon-billed sandpiper (C. pygmaea) Red-necked stint (C. ruficollis) Long-toed stint (C. subminuta) Buff-breasted sandpiper (C. subruficollis) Temminck's stint (C. temminckii) Great knot (C. tenuirostris) Surfbird (C. virgata)

Scolopacidae (Tringinae–Scolopacinae)

Tringinae

Xenus	Terek sandpiper (X. cinereus)
Phalaropus (Phalaropes)	Red phalarope (P. fulicarius) Red-necked phalarope (P. lobatus) Wilson's phalarope (P. tricolor)
Actitis	Common sandpiper (A. hypoleucos) Spotted sandpiper (A. macularia)
Tringa	Grey-tailed tattler (T. brevipes) Spotted redshank (T. erythropus) Lesser yellowlegs (T. flavipes) Wood sandpiper (T. glareola) Nordmann's greenshank (T. guttifer) Wandering tattler (T. incana) Greater yellowlegs (T. melanoleuca) Common greenshank (T. nebularia) Green sandpiper (T. ochropus) Willet (T. semipalmata) Solitary sandpiper (T. solitaria) Marsh sandpiper (T. stagnatilis) Common redshank (T. totanus)

Scolopacinae

Lymnocryptes	Jack snipe (L. minimus)
Limnodromus (Dowitchers)	Short-billed dowitcher (L. griseus) Long-billed dowitcher (L. scolopaceus) Asian dowitcher (L. semipalmatus)
Scolopax (Woodcocks)	Bukidnon woodcock (S. bukidnonensis) Sulawesi woodcock (S. celebensis) American woodcock (S. minor) Amami woodcock (S. mira) Moluccan woodcock (S. rochussenii) New Guinea woodcock (S. rosenbergii) Eurasian woodcock (S. rusticola) Javan woodcock (S. saturata)
Coenocorypha	Subantarctic snipe (C. aucklandica) Snares snipe (C. huegeli) Chatham snipe (C. pusilla)
Gallinago (Snipes)	Puna snipe (G. andina) Wilson's snipe (G. delicata) Common snipe (G. gallinago) Latham's snipe (G. hardwickii) Imperial snipe (G. imperialis) Jameson's snipe (G. jamesoni) Madagascar snipe (G. macrodactyla) Great snipe (G. media) Swinhoe's snipe (G. megala) Wood snipe (G. nemoricola) African snipe (G. nigripennis) Noble snipe (G. nobilis) South American snipe (G. paraguaiae) Solitary snipe (G. solitaria) Pin-tailed snipe (G. stenura) Fuegian snipe (G. stricklandii) Giant snipe (G. undulata)