Gallirallus astolfoi Salvador, Anderson & Tennyson, 2021
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene
Distribution & Habitat
Rapa Island (=Rapa Iti), French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Salvador, Rodrigo B., Anderson, Atholl and Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2021). An Extinct New Rail (Gallirallus, Aves: Rallidae) Species from Rapa Island, French Polynesia. Taxonomy 1(4): 448-457. https://doi.org/10.3390/taxonomy1040032
Other references:
Faurby, Søren, Matthews, Tom J., Triantis, Kostas A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2026). Quantifying the unrecorded loss of avian phylogenetic diversity. Ecography 2026: e08267. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecog.08267
Matthews, Thomas J., Triantis, Kostas A., Wayman, Joseph P., Martin, Thomas E., Hume, Julian P., Cardoso, Pedro, Faurby, Søren, Mendenhall, Chase D., Dufour, Paul, Rigal, François, Cooke, Rob, Whittaker, Robert J., Pigot, Alex L., Thébaud, Christophe, Jørgensen, Maria Wagner, Benavides, Eva, Soares, Filipa C., Ulrich, Werner, Kubota, Yasuhiro, Sadler, Jon P., Tobias, Joseph A. and Sayol, Ferran. (2024). The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions. Science 386(6717): 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk7898 [Supplementary Materials; Dryad dataset; Zenodo codeset]
Tennyson, Alan J. D. and Anderson, Atholl. (2012). Bird, reptile and mammal remains from archaeological sites on Rapa Island, pp. 105-114. In: Atholl Anderson; Douglas J. Kennett (eds.). Taking the High Ground: The archaeology of Rapa, a fortified island in remote East Polynesia. In: Terra Australis 37. Canberra: ANU E Press.