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| Bar-winged rail Temporal range: | |
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| Drawing from 1867 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Gallirallus |
| Species: | †G. poeciloptera |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gallirallus poeciloptera (Hartlaub, 1866) | |
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The bar-winged rail (Gallirallus poeciloptera) is an extinct species of bird in the family Rallidae.
Taxonomy
[edit]It was endemic to Fiji and was last collected ca 1890 in Viti Levu. The species was identified from twelve 19th century specimens, some of which are known to be in Boston, London and New York. The last unconfirmed sighting of this bird was in 1973.[2] The bar winged rail was declared extinct by the IUCN in 1994.[1]
Fossil remains dating back to the late Pleistocene or early Holocene are known from some caves in Fiji.[3] The species was formerly placed in the genus Hypotaenidia.
Description and status
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The bar-winged was likely flightless. It is about 33 cm (13 in) in length, and the females may have been slightly larger.[4]
Twelve specimens are known from the 19th century. There was one unconfirmed record in 1973, the first since 1890. Its former abundance hasn't been estimated, as it was always shy and rarely seen.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 BirdLife International (2023). "Hypotaenidia poeciloptera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023 e.T22728740A228869111. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T22728740A228869111.en.
- ↑ Taylor, Barry (4 March 2020). "Bar-winged Rail (Gallirallus poecilopterus)". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.bawrai1.01.
- ↑ Worthy, Trevor H. (2004-09-01). "The fossil rails (Aves: Rallidae) of Fiji with descriptions of a new genus and species". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 34 (3): 295–314. Bibcode:2004JRSNZ..34..295W. doi:10.1080/03014223.2004.9517768. ISSN 0303-6758. S2CID 129705107.
- 1 2 Taylor, Barry (2020). "Bar-winged Rail (Gallirallus poecilopterus), version 1.0". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.bawrai1.01. ISSN 2771-3105.
External links
[edit]- 3D view of specimen RMNH 110.047, RMNH 110.064 and RMNH 110.065 at Naturalis, Leiden (requires QuickTime browser plugin).
- University of Wisconsin Reference Downloaded 22 December 2007.
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