Biology:‘Eua rail

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Short description: Species of bird

‘Eua rail
Temporal range: Holocene
Vava'u Gallirallus.jpg
Illustration of an unidentified extinct species (possibly G. vekamatolu) from Vava'u, 1739
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Gallirallus
Species:
G. vekamatolu
Binomial name
Gallirallus vekamatolu
Kirchman & Steadman, 2005[1]

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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:rargfp2.0.co;2]. 


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