Gallirallus sp. nov. ‘Saipan’
Saipan rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Gallirallus undescribed species O (Tyrberg, 2009:78)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Saipan, Marianas Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Clark, G., et al. (2018). In: The Archaeology of Portable Art (pp. 142-161). Routledge.
Kirchman, Jeremy J. and Steadman, David W. (2006). Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania. Zootaxa 1316: 1-31.
Pregill, G.K. & Steadman, D.W. (2009) Diversity and Distributions, 15, 983–996.
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, David W. (2006). Extinction and Biogeography of Tropical Pacific Birds. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press. xiv + 594 pp.
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.