Published December 31, 2015 | Version v1
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Rallus

Description

Rallus sp. C

Santa Maria rail [Figure 20]

We refer the material from Santa Maria, consisting of ten bones (eight of them in a fragmentary condition) to Rallus sp. They probably belong to an endemic species also, but the available material is insufficient as to establish clearly its specific status.

Age: Probably Holocene-Recent.

Material and collection information: Praia, coll. H. Pieper, 2001 and 2003: MCMa 1816.13, R tbt; MCMa 1817.13, dis L fem. Vinha Velha, coll. SA team, July of 2012 and July of 2013: DBUAF 1080, L hum frag; R-1 [all the “R-” series here refered are provisional numbers of specimens to be curated at the DBUAF], dis L hum; R-2, dis L hum; R-3, sha L hum; R-4, L fem; R-5, prox R tbt; R-6, dis R tbt; R-7, dis R tbt.

Measurements: See Table 1

Notes

Published as part of Alcover, Josep Antoni, Pieper, Harald, Pereira, Fernando & Rando, Juan Carlos, 2015, Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4057 (2) on page 179, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233597

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Biodiversity

Family
Rallidae
Genus
Rallus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Gruiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Taxon rank
genus