Traversia lyalli

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Traversia lyalli, commonly known as Lyall's wren or the Stephens Island wren, was a small, flightless New Zealand wren that is now extinct and notable for its rapid disappearance after European contact.

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Traversia lyalli canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf New Zealand wren
extinct bird species
flightless bird
binomialName Traversia lyalli self-link
bodySize small
class Aves
collectedBy David Lyall
commonName Lyall's wren
Lyall's wren
surface form: Stephens Island wren
conservationStatusSystem IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
surface form: IUCN Red List
culturalSignificance iconic example of human-caused extinction in New Zealand
describedBy Walter Lawry Buller
diet insectivorous
discoveredInCentury 19th century
ecologicalRole ground-dwelling insect predator
endemicTo New Zealand
Stephens Island
extinctionAfter European contact
extinctionCause cats
introduced predators
extinctionEra late 19th century
extinctionStatus extinct
family Acanthisittidae
flightCapability flightless
genus Traversia
habitat forest floor
shrubby and rocky areas
hasSpecimensIn Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Natural History Museum, London
other natural history museums
iucnStatus Extinct
kingdom Animalia
knownFrom Stephens Island lighthouse settlement
locatedIn Cook Strait
namedAfter David Lyall
notableFor rapid extinction after European settlement
order Passeriformes
phylum Chordata
primaryLocomotion terrestrial
range restricted to Stephens Island at time of European discovery
region New Zealand offshore islands
relatedTo Acanthisitti
surface form: Acanthisitta chloris
scientificSignificance only known flightless passerine of New Zealand wrens
taxonRank species
vulnerability high susceptibility to introduced mammals

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Acanthisitti containsTaxon Traversia lyalli
Acanthisitti hasExtinctSpecies Traversia lyalli
Traversia lyalli binomialName Traversia lyalli self-link
Xenicus longipes relatedTo Traversia lyalli