Biology:Tongatapu rail

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Short description: Extinct species of bird

Tongatapu rail
Temporal range: Late Holocene
Gallirallus hypoleucus.jpg
Watercolour painting by Georg Forster
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Gallirallus
Species:
G. hypoleucus
Binomial name
Gallirallus hypoleucus
(Finsch & Hartlaub, 1867)
Synonyms
  • Rallus hypoleucus

The Tongatapu rail (Gallirallus hypoleucus) was a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was apparently native to the island of Tongatapu in the Kingdom of Tonga, in Polynesia in the south-west Pacific Ocean. It is known only from brief descriptions of a specimen, now lost, collected from Tongatapu in 1777 in the course of James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific, and from a contemporary illustration by Georg Forster.[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7821055 entry