Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean)

Zootaxa

Volumn 4057, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 151-190

  Alcover, Josep Antoni ^a   Pieper, Harald ^b   Pereira, Fernando ^c   Rando, Juan Carlos ^d  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b Universidade dos Açores ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extinction; Macaronesia; Quaternary; R. adolfocaesaris n. sp.; R. carvaoensis n. sp.; R. minutus n. sp; R. montivagorum n. sp.; Rallus lowei n. sp.

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MALE; ORGAN SIZE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; ISLANDS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 84949424635     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1     Document Type: Article

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