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Cheke's wood rail

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35: 157: 345: 405: 386: 232:, which is a rare vagrant to Mauritius, until analysis of the fossils found it to be a distinct flightless taxon that is likely descended from 410: 236:. This species may be the "small rail" referred to in the accounts of Dutch explorers, in contrast to the "large rail," which may be the 312: 260:
Hume, J. P. (2019). "Systematics, morphology and ecology of rails (Aves: Rallidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with one new species".
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Previously mentioned as an undescribed extinct taxon and provisionally named Sauzier's wood-rail, or
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and was originally thought to be an isolated population of
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Gruiformes
Rallidae
Dryolimnas
Binomial name

Mauritius
rail
endemic
Mascarene
Mauritius
Julian P. Hume
ecologist
Anthony S. Cheke
Dryolimnas
Mauritius
red rail


doi
10.11646/zootaxa.4626.1.1
PMID
31712544
S2CID
198258434

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