Dryolimnas cuvieri abbotti (Ridgway, 1894:74)
Assumption white-throated rail, Abbott's white-throated rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Rougetius abbotti Ridgway, 1894 (original combination); Rallus abbotti (Ridgway, 1894:74)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1908
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Assumption Island, Seychelles
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
NHMUK 1910.4.8.1 (unsexed)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ridgway, R. (1894). Note on Rougetius aldabranus. The Auk 11: 74.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Dryolimnas cuvieri. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 August 2013.
Harrison CJO, Walker CA. Pleistocene bird remains from Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean. J. Nat. Hist.1978; 12(1):7–14.
Hume JP. 2017. Extinct birds, 2nd edn. London: Christopher Helm.
Hume, Julian Pender and Martill, David. (2019). Repeated evolution of flightlessness in Dryolimnas rails (Aves: Rallidae) after extinction and recolonization on Aldabra. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz018
Hume, Julian Pender, Martill, David and Hing, R. (2018). A terrestrial vertebrate palaeontological review of Aldabra Atoll, Aldabra Group, Seychelles. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0192675.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292.
Low, Carmichael (1929): , List of the vertebrated animals exhibited in the gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1828-1927; Volume II. Birds. Printed for the Society; England.
Matthews, Thomas J., Wayman, Joseph P., Cardoso, Pedro, Sayol, Ferran, Hume, Julian P., Ulrich, Werner, Tobias, Joseph A., Soares, Filipa C., Thébaud, Christophe, Martin, Thomas E. and Triantis, Kostas A. (2022). Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity. Journal of Biogeography 49(11): 1920-1940. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14474 [Appendix S1 (.docx); Appendix S2 (.pdf)]
Meade-Waldo, E. G. B. (1908). Abbott's rail, Rallus abbotti. Avicultural Magazine NS6: 219-221.
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Stoddart, D. R. et al. (1970). Ecological change and effects of phosphate mining on Assumption Island. Atoll Research Bulletin 136: 121-145.
Taylor, B. and van Perlo, B. (1998). Rails: a guide to the rails, crakes, gallinules and coots of the world. Robertsbridge, UK: Pica Press.
Vesey-Fitzgerald, D. (1941). Further contributions to the ornithology of the Seychelles Islands. Ibis 14(5): 518-531.