?Gallirallus sp. nov. ‘Taongi’
Bokak rail, Taongi rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Bokak Atoll (=Taongi Atoll), Marshall Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Irmer, G. (1895). Letter Kaiserlicher Landshauptmann für das Schutzgebiet derMarschall Inseln Dr. Georg Irmer to Reichskanzler Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. Trip report on a voyage to Bikar and Bokak. Letter dated Jaluit 14 December 1895. In Auswärtiges Amt Kolonial-Abtheilung AIIIActen betreffend Deutsche Südsee Phosphat Gesellschaft. Gesellschaftenund Vereine 10f N. 4. File 2459 Vol 1. June 1906 to 15 March 1907. NationalLibrary of Australia, Microfilm MfM G 8525.
Spennemann, Dirk H. R. (1998). A note on a 19th century sighting of a ground-dwelling bird on Bokak, the northernmost atoll of the Marshall Islands. Corella 17(1): 44-45.