Hypotaenidia vavauensis Worthy & Burley, 2019
Vava'u rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
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.