Tahiti crake
The Tahiti crake (Zapornia nigra), also known as Miller's rail, was a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was endemic to Tahiti. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage.[2] John Frederick Miller copied Forster's painting and published it with some changes and remarks in his work Cimelia Physica in 1784.[2] It probably went extinct in about 1800 from introduced predators.
Illustration by John Frederick Miller
| Tahiti crake | |
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| Drawing by Georg Forster | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Zapornia |
| Species: | †Z. nigra |
| Binomial name | |
| †Zapornia nigra J. F. Miller, 1784 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Rallus nigra | |
References
- BirdLife International (2016). "Zapornia nigra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22728757A94995544. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728757A94995544.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Walters, Michael (1988). "Probable validity of Rallus nigra Miller, an extinct species from Tahiti" (PDF). Notornis. 35 (4): 265–269.
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