Hypotaenidia vavauensis Worthy & Burley, 2019
Vava'u rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Gallirallus undescribed species (Tyrberg, 2009:79)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: subfossil remains; 1793 (illustration) (Olson, 2006)
Distribution
Vava'u, Tonga
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Worthy, Trevor H. and Burley, David V. (2019). Prehistoric avifaunas from the Kingdom of Tonga. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(3): 998-1045. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz110
Other references:
Olson, Storrs L. (2006). Birds, including extinct species, encountered by the Malaspina Expedition on Vava’u, Tonga, in 1793. Archives of Natural History 33(1): 42-52.
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)]
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.