Rallus sp. nov. 'Fernando de Noronha'
Fernando de Noronha rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
The description of this taxon is still pending (Storrs Olson, pers. comm. to Melanie Nayyal in September 2014 [Olson died in January 2021]; Nascimento & Silveira, 2024:122).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: subfossil
Distribution
Fernando de Noronha, Fernando de Noronha archipelago, Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Carleton MD and Olson SL (1999) Amerigo Vespucci and the rat of Fernando de Noronha: a new genus and species of Rodentia (Muridae: Sigmodontinae) from a volcanic island off Brazil’s continental shelf. American Museum Novitates 3256, 1–59.
Nascimento, Rafael and Silveira, Luís Fábio. (2024). Fossil and subfossil birds of Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba) 41: e23079. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23079
Olson SL (1977) A synopsis of the fossil Rallidae. In Ripley SD, Rails of the World: a Monograph of the Family Rallidae, pp. 339–373. David R. Godine, Boston.
Olson, Storrs L. (1981). Natural history of vertebrates on the Brazilian islands of the mid South Atlantic. Natl. Geogr. Soc. Res. Rep. 13: 481-492.
Olson SL (1982) Natural history of vertebrates on the Brazilian islands of the mid South Atlantic. National Geographic Society Research Reports 13, 481–492.
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.