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Post by sebbe67 on May 16, 2005 17:04:53 GMT
Rodrigues Rail Aphanapteryx leguati was restricted to Rodrigues, Mauritius. It is known from a number of bones, and from several travelers' reports, the last of which was that of Tafforet in 1726. It was flightless and apparently excellent eating, and was heavily hunted, presumably becoming extinct in the mid-18th century—Pingré reported that it was extinct in 1761.
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Post by another specialist on Jun 5, 2005 16:41:58 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jun 5, 2005 16:42:18 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 5:55:16 GMT
Aphanapteryx leguati
(Milne-Edwards) 1874
Subrecent, Rodrigues, e Mascarene Islands, wc Indian Ocean
Primary materials: Syntypes: sternum, tarsometatarsus, craniumfragment
Secondary materials: Other: crania, both mandibles, pelvis, scapula, humerus, ulna, radius, carpometacarpus, femur, tibiotarsus, tarsometatarsus
Storrs L. Olson,
A synopsis on the fossil Rallidae
In Rails of the world: A monograph of the family Rallidae by S.D. Ripley, Codline, Boston (1977): 509-525
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Post by another specialist on Jun 8, 2005 4:16:40 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 14:59:11 GMT
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Post by Carlos on Jun 14, 2006 17:12:38 GMT
In Fuller (2002) Extinct Birds (Foreword - HBW7) Leguat's Rail Aphanapteryx leguatiErythromachus leguati Milne-Edwards, 1874
Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. Ser. 5, no. 19: 15The Hugenot refugee François Leguat discovered a relative of the Mauritian Red Rail during his two-year sojourn on the island of Rodrigues: Our Wood-hens are fat all the year round and a most delicate taste. Their colour is always of a bright grey, and here is very little difference in the plumage between the two sexes. They hide their nests so well that we could not find them out and consequently did not taste their eggs. They have a red list about their eyes, their beaks are straight and pointed, near two inches long, and red also. They cannot fly, their fat makes them too heavy for it. If you offer them anything that's red, they are so angry they will fly at you and catch it out of your hand, and in the heat of the combat we had an opportunity to take them with ease. It is curious to note how this last piece of information conforms to the reported behaviour of the Mauritius Red Rail. An anonymous manuscript - alleged to have been written by a marroned sailor named Tafforet - dating from around 1725, described a creature that could not fly, was armed with a heavy beak, made a continual whistling, fed on tortoise eggs (Rodrigues was once home to a now extinct species of giant tortoise) and was a powerful runner. Since no subsequent visitor to Rodrigues mentions any such creature it may be assumed that these birds became extinct soon after 1725. In 1874 bones were found in a Rodrigues cave and these appear to correspond with the early accounts; they constituted the material on which Alphonse Milne-Edwards based his formal description of this species. Additional skeletal finds have subsequently been made. |
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Post by another specialist on May 12, 2008 5:53:41 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 14, 2008 20:10:30 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 14, 2008 20:50:10 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 20, 2008 20:03:28 GMT
 Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction (1907) |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 25, 2008 7:17:39 GMT
 Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction (1907) |
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Post by Melanie on Jul 3, 2019 0:50:25 GMT
Systematics, morphology and ecology of rails (Aves: Rallidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with one new species JULIAN PENDER HUME Abstract Five species in five genera of extinct endemic rails have been described from the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues: the Mauritian Red Rail or Poule Rouge Aphanapteryx bonasia; Mascarene Coot or Poule d’eau Fulica newtonii; which occurred on Mauritius and Réunion; Réunion Wood Rail Dryolimnas augusti; Réunion Gallinule or Oiseaux bleu ‘Porphyrio caerulescens’; and Rodrigues or Leguat’s Rail Erythromachus leguati. All are known from fossil remains and/or from contemporary accounts and illustrations. A sixth species of rail Dryolimnas sp. nov. is described herein from fossils from Mauritius, but was not unequivocally previously reported in the contemporary literature. This paper provides an analysis of the Rallidae of the Mascarene Islands based on existing and newly discovered fossil remains, and details historical reports and accounts. Comprehensive osteological descriptions and synonymies are also included. Their ecology and extinction chronologies are interpreted from historical evidence. The relationships of Aphanapteryx and Erythromachus are unresolved, having clearly been isolated for a considerable time; the middle Miocene is the earliest their ancestors could have arrived on the Mascarenes, but this may have happened more recently. Mascarene derivatives of Fulica, Porphyrio and Dryolimnas are of much more recent origin, and appear to have originated in Africa or Madagascar. All terrestrial rails on Mauritius, Réunion and Rodrigues, were probable victims of cat predation following their historic introduction to the islands, whereas over-hunting by humans was probably the primary cause of extinction of ‘Porphyrio caerulescens’ on Réunion. The only extant rail on the Mascarenes today, the Madagascar race of Eurasian Moorhen Gallinula chloropus pyrrhorrhoa, is a recent arrival, having colonised Mauritius and Réunion after the extinction of Fulica newtonii. Keywords Aves, Mascarene rails, Rallidae, Aphanapteryx, Erythromachus, Dryolimnas, Porphyrio, Gallinula, Leguatia, extinction, affinities, ecology, sexual dimorphism mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4626.1.1 |
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Post by koeiyabe on Aug 6, 2023 3:33:46 GMT
 "Atlas of Extinct Animals (in Japanese)" by Radek Maly (2022) |
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