Rallus montivagorum Alcover, Pieper, Pereira & Rando, 2015, new species ...

• Main Authors: Alcover, Josep Antoni, Pieper, Harald, Pereira, Fernando, Rando, Juan Carlos
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Aves; Gruiformes; Rallidae; Rallus; Rallus montivagorum; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119623; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6119623

Rallus montivagorum, new species Pico rail [Figures 6, 8 F, 9B, 10B, 11D, 12C, 13B, 14B, 15D, 16D, 17D] Artistic reconstruction: Figure 23 Holotype: McMa 1831.014, associated skeleton: sku frag, man frags, ster frag, LR scap, R cor, R hum and L hum frags, L uln, L cmc, syn, LR fem, LR tbt, L tmt. Measurements of holotype (in mm): Humerus—length 32.9, proximal width 6.7, minimum shaft width 2.2, distal width 4.7. Ulna—length: 25.8; proximal width: 3.1; proximal diameter: 2.9; minimum shaft width—2.0; distal width: 3.0. Carpometacarpus—length: 16.8; proximal width: 4.2; distal width: 2.4. Femur—length: 35.8; proximal width: 5.7; minimum shaft width: 2.5; distal width: 5.6. Tibiotarsus—total length: 55.0; medial length: 53.1; proximal width: 5.7; minimum shaft width: 2.4; distal width: 4.9. Tarsometatarsus—length: 33.3; proximal width: 5.1; minimum shaft width: 2.4; distal width: 5.0. Scapula—length: 29.0; proximal width: 4.5. Coracoid: length: 16.8. Cranial length (without the bill)—26.8; cranial width: 14.9; ... : Published as part of Alcover, Josep Antoni, Pieper, Harald, Pereira, Fernando & Rando, Juan Carlos, 2015, Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4057 (2) on pages 163-166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233597 ...