São Miguel rail

São Miguel rail
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Rallus
Species:
R. carvaoensis
Binomial name
Rallus carvaoensis
Alcover et. al., 2015

The São Miguel rail (Rallus carvaoensis) is an extinct species of Rallus that inhabited São Miguel Island in the Azores during the Holocene epoch.[1]

References

  1. ^ Josep Antoni Alcover; Harald Pieper; Fernando Pereira; Juan Carlos Rando (2015). "Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean)". Zootaxa. 4057 (2): 151–190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1. hdl:10261/132286. PMID 26701473.