The Mukojima white-eye (''Apalopteron familiare familiare''), incorrectly known as the Mukojima honeyeater, is the

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

nominate

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

of the

Bonin white-eye The Bonin white-eye (''Apalopteron familiare'') or is a small songbird endemic to the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara Islands) of Japan. It is the only species in the genus ''Apalopteron''. Its taxonomic affinities were a long-standing mystery and it ...

(formerly Bonin honeyeater). It occurred on Muko-jima and Nakodo-jima in the northern group of the

Ogasawara Islands The Bonin Islands, also known as the , are an archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands, some directly south of Tokyo, Japan and northwest of Guam. The name "Bonin Islands" comes from the Japanese word ''bunin'' (an archaic readi ...

. The last record were specimens taken in January 1930 on Muko-jima; by then, the bird was already gone from Nakodo-jima. In 1941, the subspecies was found to have gone extinct in the meantime.

References

* Kittlitz, Heinrich von (1830): escription of ''Apalopteron familiare''''Mem. presentes a l'Acad. Imp. des Sci. de St. Petersbourg par divers savants, etc.'' 1(3): 235, plate 13. white-eye, Mukojima Extinct animals of Japan Extinct birds of Oceania white-eye, Mukojima Endemic birds of Japan white-eye, Mukojima Birds described in 1830 Taxa named by Heinrich von Kittlitz {{Zosteropidae-stub ja:ムコジマメグロ