Descriptions of all fossil Ralliformes (3 Viewers)

[Fred Ruhe]

Insert after Miohypotaenidia tanaisensis Zelenkov, Panteleyev et De Pietri, 2017:

Genus Gallirallus de Lafresnaye, 1841

Gallirallus astolfoi Salvador, Anderson et Tennyson, 2021
Rodrigo B. Salvador , Atholl Anderson and Alan J. D. Tennyson, 2021
An Extinct New Rail (Gallirallus, Aves: Rallidae) Species from
Rapa Island, French Polynesia †
Taxonomy 1: 448–457

An Extinct New Rail (Gallirallus, Aves: Rallidae) Species from Rapa Island, French Polynesia

A new species of rail, Gallirallus astolfoi sp. nov., is described from Rapa Island (Rapa Iti), French Polynesia. The holotype (and single known specimen) is a left tarsometatarsus recovered from Tangarutu Cave. This rail species was apparently endemic to Rapa Iti and potentially flightless. It...

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[Ixobrychus]

Here again we have the problem that revisors only take living species into account, I have seen these proposels but i did nothing with them, in my thought it was of little importance, so I left things as they were, but I will consider it, though I'd rather wait for a review of all the fossil Rallidae, the lasty one is from 1977.

The same goes for the fossil Pacific Ground doves, they have never been reviewed.

If you have more questions, please ask them, but please give some references so I can check the facts, the taxonomy of recent birds is changing very quickly these days and it is hard to keep up with these.

Fred

You cite the Pacific ground doves still in Gallicolumba but not in Pampusana and the Pacific crakes still in Porzana than Zapornia is most likely because you did not see IOC's taxonomic updates. See IOC's taxonomic updates and you might understand what I mean.

Gallinula hodgenorum is also classified within Tribonyx, as also mentioned in some studies.

 

[Fred Ruhe]

Insert after Porzana botunensis Boev, 2015.

Porzana payevskyi Zelenkov, Palastrova, Martynovich et
Volkova, 2023
Zelenkov, N., E. Palastrova, N. Martynovich, A. Klementiev, A. Sizov, and N. Volkova (2023)
A tiny duck (Sibirionetta formozovi sp. nov.), a giant grey partridge (Titanoperdix felixi gen. et sp. nov.), a new rail (Porzana payevskyi sp. nov.), and other birds from the Early Pleistocene of Baikalian Siberia
Biological Communications 68: 261–272
https://www.researchgate.net/public...om_the_Early_Pleistocene_of_Baikalian_Siberia

Fred