ʻEua rail: Difference between revisions
| [pending revision] | [pending revision] |
Content deleted Content added
m Undid revision 838087054 by 2602:252:D06:1790:BD71:1219:DD01:EE28 (talk) |
No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{speciesbox |
{{speciesbox |
||
| fossil_range= Early [[Holocene]] |
|||
| name = ‘Eua rail |
| name = ‘Eua rail |
||
| image = Vava'u Gallirallus.jpg |
| image = Vava'u Gallirallus.jpg |
||
Revision as of 00:51, 1 June 2018
| ‘Eua rail Temporal range: Early Holocene
| |
|---|---|
| |
| Illustration of an unidentified extinct species (possibly G. vekamatolu) from Vava'u, 1739 | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Gallirallus |
| Species: | †G. vekamatolu
|
| Binomial name | |
| †Gallirallus vekamatolu | |
The ʻEua rail (Gallirallus vekamatolu) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the Rallidae, or rail family. It was described in 2005 from subfossil bones found on the island of ʻEua, in the Kingdom of Tonga of West Polynesia.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Kirchman, J.J.; Steadman, D. W. (2005). "Rails (Aves: Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric sites in the Kingdom of Tonga, including description of a new species". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 118 (2): 465–477. doi:10.2988/0006-324x(2005)118[465:rargfp]2.0.co;2.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help)
.png){kind=small} | This Gruiformes-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This prehistoric bird article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |