Eiao Monarch

Eiao Monarch
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Monarchidae
Genus: Pomarea
Species: P. fluxa
Binomial name
Pomarea fluxa
Murphy & Mathews, 1928

The Eiao Monarch (Pomarea fluxa) was a species of bird in the Monarchidae family. The species is sometimes considered to have been conspecific with the Iphis Monarch It was endemic to French Polynesia. Its natural habitats were subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It became extinct due to habitat loss. It was last seen in 1977.

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