Eclectus infectus, STEADMAN, 2006

? ECLECTUS INFECTUS STEADMAN, 2006 C

Material: Ofu: NISP = 6, MNI = 1 (does not change MNI for certainly identified material of this taxon).

Remarks: The genus Eclectus is represented by the extant Ec. roratus (S. Müller, 1776) , a polytypic species (nine subspecies) ranging from the Moluccas through to New Guinea, the Solomons and northern Australia ( Dickinson & Remsen, 2013). The extinct species Ec. infectus was described on archaeological specimens from Tonga and from Malakula in Vanuatu ( Steadman, 2006c). Many more specimens attributed to this form were described from Teouma, on Efate in Vanuatu ( Worthy et al., 2015). The bones described here were qualitatively the same as those from Vanuatu.