Vini kuhlii
Kuhl's lorikeet, also called the Rimitara lorikeet, Kuhl's lory, manu 'ura or kura, is a species of lorikeet in the family Psittaculidae. It is one of several species of Vini lorikeets found in islands ranging across the South Pacific. Nicholas Aylward Vigors named it kuhlii in 1824 after Heinrich Kuhl, a German ornithologist whose survey of the parrots Conspectus psittacorum had appeared in 1819.
desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Kuhl's lorikeetPBDB
- Sits inside
- ViniPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Vini kuhlii on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
7 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Vini kuhlii and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Vini kuhlii and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Gallirallus ripleyi5 sites
- Alopecoenas erythropterus4 sites
- Ducula galeata4 sites
- Porzana rua4 sites
- Vini vidivici4 sites
- Zapornia tabuensis4 sites
- Gallus gallus3 sites
- Gygis alba3 sites
- Phaethon lepturus3 sites
- Ptilinopus rarotongensis3 sites
- Acrocephalus kerearako2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Anous ceruleus1 site
- Ducula aurorae1 site
- Gallicolumba1 site
- Gallicolumba nui1 site
- Gygis alba microrhyncha1 site
- Heliopora1 site
- Platygyra1 site
- Pluvialis dominica1 site
- Porites1 site
- Pteropus1 site
- Todiramphus tutus1 site
- Urodynamis taitensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Vini kuhlii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Prehistoric extinction of birds on Mangaia, Cook Islands, Polynesia4
- Extinct and extirpated birds from Aitutaki and Atiu, southern Cook Islands2
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups1
Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Vini kuhlii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- desertnaturalist
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vini kuhlii was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVini through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Vigors 1824)