Porphyrio caerulescens Sélys-Longchamps, 1848:294
Réunion gallinule, Réunion blue gallinule, ‘Oiseau bleu’
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Cyanornis coerulescens Sélys-Longchamps, 1848:294; Porphyrio coerulescens Sélys-Longchamps, 1848:294 [orth. error]; Apterornis caerulescens Sélys-Longchamps, 1848:294
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1724; c.1734 (Tyrberg, 2009:82)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Réunion, Mascarene Islands
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Sélys Longchamps, E. (1848). Résumé concer. nant les Oiseaux brévipennes mentionnés dans l’ouvrage de M. Strickland sur le Dodo. Revue Zoologique, October 1848: 292-295.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2014). Porphyrio caerulescens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 August 2014.
BirdLife International. (2016). Porphyrio caerulescens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22728726A94994728. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728726A94994728.en. Downloaded on 27 June 2021.
Brooks, T. (2000). Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Brown, Rév. Père. (1773). Lettre du révérend Père Brown, missionaire de la Compagnie de Jesus, à Madame la marquise de Beaumont. Lettres Edificantes; Mémoires des Indes 30: 321-351.
Cheke, A.S. 1987. An ecological history of the Mascarene Islands, with particular reference to extinctions and introductions of land vertebrates. In: Diamond, A.W. (ed.), Studies of Mascarene island birds, pp. 5-89. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Cheke, Anthony S. (2013). Extinct birds of the Mascarenes and Seychelles - a review of the causes of extinction in the light of an important new publication on extinct birds. Phelsuma 21: 4-19.
Cheke, Anthony S. and Hume, Julian Pender. (2008). Lost Land of the Dodo: An Ecological History of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 464 pp.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Dubois, (Sieur). (1674), Les voyages faits par le sieur D.B. aux isles Dauphine ou Madagascar et Bourbon ou Mascarenne es annees 1669, 70, 71, et 72. 234 pp. Paris (Claude Barbin).
Feuilley. (1705). Mission à l'île Bourbon du Sieur Feuilley en 1704 [ed. A. Loughnon]. Receuil trimestriel de documents et travaux inédits pour servir à l'histoire des Mascareignes françaises 4: 3-56, 101-167 (1939).
Hume, Julian Pender. (2013). A synopsis of the pre-human avifauna of the Mascarene Islands, pp. 195-237. In: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien.
Hume, Julian Pender. (2019). Systematics, morphology and ecology of rails (Aves: Rallidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with one new species. Zootaxa 4626(1): 1-107. [Abstract]
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
Le Gentil, B. G. (1727). Nouveau voyage autor du monde. Paris: Flahaut. 3 volumes.
Livezey, B. C. 1998. A phylogenetic analysis of the Gruiformes (Aves) based on morphological characters, with an emphasis on the rails (Rallidae). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 353: 2077-2151.
Milton, P. (1951). Notes sur l'avifaune actuelle de l'ile de la Réunion. Terre Vie 98: 129-178.
Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, R., Ribes, S. and Moutou, F. (1999). The Avifauna of Réunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the time of the arrival of the first Europeans. In: Olson, S. (ed): Avian Paleontology at the Close of the 20th Century: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996. – Smithsonian contributions to paleobiology 89: 1-38.
Olson, Storrs L. (1977). A synopsis on the fossil Rallidae, pp. 509-525. In: Ripley, S. D. Rails of the World: A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. Boston: David R. Godine.
Rothschild, Lionel Walter. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 145, pl. 32]
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)]
Sharpe, R. B. (1894). Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, volume 23. Catalogue of the Fulicarinae (Rallidae and Heliornithidae) and Alectorides (Aramidae, Eurypygidae, Mesitidae, Rhinochetidae, Gruidae, Psophidae, and Otididae). London: Printed by order of the Trustees.
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.