Madeira rail
| Madeira rail Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| Illustration of Rallus lowei as it may have looked. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Rallus |
| Species: | †R. lowei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Rallus lowei Alcover et al., 2015 | |
The Madeira rail (Rallus lowei) is an extinct species of Rallus that inhabited Madeira Island in Madeira during the Holocene epoch.
References
- ↑ 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.
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