Rallus antarcticus King, 1828:95
Austral rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1959
Rediscovered in 1998
IUCN RedList status: Vulnerable
Distribution
Argentina & Chile
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
King, Phillip Parker. (1828). [Extracts from a letter to N. A. Vigors on the animals of the Straits of Magellan]. The Zoological Journal 4: 91-105.
Other references:
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Scheffers, Brett R., Yong, Ding Li, Harris, J. Berton C., Giam, Xingli and Sodhi, Navjot S. (2011). The world’s rediscovered species: back from the brink? PLoS ONE 6(7): e22531. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022531 [Supporting Information (Table S1)]
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