Biology:Antillean cave rail
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Short description: Extinct species of bird
| Antillean cave rail | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Genus: | †Nesotrochis |
| Species: | †N. debooyi
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| †Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore, 1918
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| Location of Puerto Rico. | |
The Antillean cave rail (Nesotrochis debooyi), also known as DeBooy's rail, is an extinct species of flightless bird which occurred on Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands.[1]
Extinction
Bone fragments of this species were first unearthed by archaeologist Theodoor de Booy in kitchen midden deposits on the Richmond estate near Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands in July 1916 and described by Alexander Wetmore in 1918. The Antillean cave rail might have become extinct before the arrival of the Europeans.[2]
References
External links
- The Auk Vol. 55 (1938), p. 51: Bird remains from the West Indies by Alexander Wetmore
- Catalogue of Fossil birds by Pierce Brodkorb Part 3 - Family Rallidae p. 127
- Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 46, article 4., 1922
Wikidata ☰ Q310085 entry
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