Gallirallus ripleyi (Mangaia Rail)

[another specialist]

Gallirallus ripleyi
Steadman 1986
Holocene of Mangaia, s Cook Islands, sc Pacific Ocean
Primary materials: Holotype: associated ditaal part tibiotarsus and complete tarsometatarsus
Secondary materials: Paratypes: coracoïd and mandibula

David W. Steadman,
Two new species of rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia, southern Cook Islands
Pacific Science 40 (1986): 38-54

[sebbe67]

COMMON NAMES: Ripley's Rail

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE formerly Cooks (extinct)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native, Resident Breeder, Endemic of Cook Islands, Extinct; S.Group - formerly on MG; Land

Vouchers:
Mangaia: recorded in the oldest archaeological layer of 1000AD (J) and not recorded after 1200AD (G), Steadman & Kirch (1990) as Gallirallus ripleyi.

[another specialist]

source for sebbe67 entry

cookislands.bishopmuseum.org/species.asp?id=14276

[another specialist]

source for my entry above

www.ornitaxa.com/SM/Fossil/FossilRalli.htm

[another specialist]

Porzana roa and Gallirallus ripleyi, became extinct in prehistoric times (within the last 1000 years)

64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:cPavKF84CVQJ:islands.unep.ch/IKK.htm+Gallirallus+ripleyi&hl=en

tinyurl.com/ckqf8

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David W. Steadman,
Two new species of rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia, southern Cook Islands
Pacific Science 40 (1986): 38-54

Full text article here:
scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/1002/1/v40-27-43.pdf