Rallus minutus 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 minutus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119627; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6119627

Rallus minutus, new species São Jorge rail [Figures 7, 8 I, 9C, 10D, 11E, 12D, 13C, 14C, 15E, 16E, 17E] Artistic reconstruction: Figure 23 Holotype: MCMa 1950.014, associated skeleton (pmx frags, ste frag, LR cors, R scap frag, L hum, uln and uln frag, L cmc, fem frags, tbt and tbt frags, R tmt and prox L tmt, 3 ped phas). Measurements of holotype (in mm): Humerus—length: 25.6; proximal width: 5.6; minimum shaft width: 1.5; distal width: 4.1. Ulna—length: 17.6; proximal width: 2.5; proximal diameter: 2.4; minimum shaft width: 1.3; distal width: 2.4. Carpometacarpus—length: 11.0; proximal width: 3.4. Femur—proximal width: 5.9; minimum shaft width: 2.2; distal width: 5.7. Tibiotarsus—minimum shaft width: 2.2; distal width: 5.0. Tarsometatarsustotal length: 27.3; proximal width: 5.0; minimum shaft width: 2.5; distal width: 5.5. Scapula—proximal width: 3.6. Coracoid—length: 13.5. Type locality: Gruta do Pasto do Engenheiro, São Jorge, collected 20 Sept 2014. Known distribution: São Jorge, Central Azores. ... : 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 168-171, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233597 ...