Zapornia nigra (Miller, 1784)
Tahiti crake, Miller’s rail
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Rallus nigra (J.F. Miller, 1784); Porzana nigra (J.F. Miller, 1784); Nesophylax niger (Miller, 1784)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1784 or later?
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Tahiti
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Miller, John Frederick. (1784). [Icones Animalium et Plantarum]. Var.Subj.Nat.Hist. pt9 pl.50.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2000). Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge.
BirdLife International. (2012). Zapornia nigra. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2. (www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 26 July 2014.
BirdLife International. (2016). Zapornia nigra. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22728757A94995544. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728757A94995544.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
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.
del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Christie, D. A.; Elliott, A.; Fishpool, L. D. C. (2014). HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International.
Fisher, Clemency T. and Warr, F. E. (2003). Museums on paper: library & manuscript resources. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 123A: 136-164.
Hume, J.P. (2017) Extinct Birds 2nd Edition
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.
Lysaght, Averil. (1956). A note on the Polynesian Black or Sooty Rail Porzana nigra (Miller) 1784. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 76: 97-98.
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.
Walters, Michael P. (1988). Probable validity of Rallus nigra Miller, an extinct species from Tahiti. Notornis 35(4): 265-269.
Walters, Michael P. (1989). Comment on the proposed suppression of Rallus nigra Miller, 1784 (Aves). Bull. Biol. Nomen. 46: 50-52.