Porzana cinerea brevipes Ingram, 1911:21
Iwo Jima rail, Iwo-jima rail, Sulphur Island ashy crake, mamijiro kuina
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Poliolimnas cinereus brevipes Ingram, 1911:21
Considered invalid by (Dickinson, 2003).
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym)
Last record: 1911 (specimen collected); 1924 (possible sighting by Momiyama, 1930); 1925 (Knox & Walters, 1994:111)
Distribution
Iwo Jima (=Sulphur Island) (& San Augustino Island)?, Japan
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ingram, Collingwood. (1911). "a new subspecies of Rail belonging to the genus Porzana". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 29: 21-22.
Other references:
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Dickinson, E. C. (ed.). (2003). The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. London: Christopher Helm.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292.
Momiyama, T. T. (1930). On the birds of Bonin and the Iwo-Islands. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society, Japan 1: 89-186.