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Gallirallus pisonii Kirchman & Steadman, 2006:10

Aguiguan rail

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

 

Distribution

Aguiguan, Marianas Islands

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Kirchman, Jeremy J. and Steadman, David W. (2006). Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania. Zootaxa 1316: 1-31.

 

Other references:

Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.

Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]

Steadman DW (1999) The prehistory of vertebrates, especially birds, on Tinian, Aguiguan, and Rota, Northern Mariana Islands. Micronesica 31, 319–345.

Steadman DW (2006) Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Steadman, D.W., et al. (2000) The Wilson Bulletin, 112, 165–186.

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

 

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