Mohoidae (Hawaiian Honeyeaters)

Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Muscicapida
Distribution: Hawaii
Number of extinct genera: 2
Number of recently extinct species: 5

Traditional genus-level classification of recently extinct (red letters) Mohoidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) Note, however, that according to the results of Zhao et al. (2026) the genus Moho is not monophyletic as long as M. braccatus is included.

Modulatricidae

Mohouidae

Passerine families

Individual orders

References

Zhao M, Kimball RT, and Braun EL (2026), The phylogenetic position of the extinct Hawaiian honeyeaters: Overcoming the limitations of antique DNA, Zool. Scr. 55, 405-419. (abstract)