Rallus adolfocaesaris Alcover et al., 2015
Porto Santo rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Porto Santo (Island), Madeira (archipelago), North Atlantic Ocean
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Alcover, Josep Antoni, Pieper, Harald, Pereira, Fernando and Rando, Juan C. (2015). Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean). Zootaxa 4057 (2): 151-200.
Other references:
Pieper, Harald. (1985). The fossil land birds of Madeira and Porto Santo. Bocagiana 88: 1-6.
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.