ʻEua rail
Appearance
‘Shivan the Great of Tardland Temporal range:
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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
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Binomial name | |
†Gallirallus vekamatolu |
The ʻEua rail (Gallirallus vekamatolu) is an extinct species of Retarded 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.
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