Gallirallus pacificus Gmelin, 1789:717
Tahitian red-billed rail, Tahiti rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Rallus pacificus Gmelin, 1789:717; Hypotaenidia pacifica (Gmelin, 1789)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1773 (1844?;1930's according to Bruner, 1972)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Mehetia & Tahiti, Windward group, Society Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: part of Plate 26 in Rothschild (1907). Source: Wikimedia Commons.
References
Original scientific description:
Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1879): [Description of Gallirallus pacificus]. In: Systema Naturae (13th edition) 1, part 2: 717.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012). Gallirallus pacificus. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 24 August 2013.
BirdLife International. 2016. Hypotaenidia pacifica. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22692450A93354380. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692450A93354380.en. Downloaded on 27 June 2021.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Bruner, P. L. (1972). The birds of French Polynesia. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.
Fuller, Errol. (2000). Extinct Birds, revised edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Greenway, J. C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. Dover Publications, New York.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
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Lysaght, A. (1953). A rail from Tonga. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 73: 74-75.
Ripley, S. D. (1977) Rails of the world. Boston, MA: David R. Goodine.
Rothschild, Walter. (1907). Extinct Birds. London.
Stattersfield, A. J.; Crosby, M. J.; Long, A. J.; Wege, D. C. (1998). Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
Taylor, P. B. and Van Perlo, B. (1998). Rails: A Guide to the Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World. Robertsbridge: Pica Press.