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Rallus sp. B Terceira rail [Figures 18, 19 C] The material from Terceira consists of 13 associated skeletons (but most bones are very fragmentary). These bones probably also belong to an endemic species, convergent with the Pico rail, but the available material is very fragmentary and insufficient t...
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| Summary: | Rallus sp. B Terceira rail [Figures 18, 19 C] The material from Terceira consists of 13 associated skeletons (but most bones are very fragmentary). These bones probably also belong to an endemic species, convergent with the Pico rail, but the available material is very fragmentary and insufficient to establish clearly its specific distinction from known taxa, so we refer it as Rallus sp. Material and collection information. Gruta do Natal: MCMa 1818.013, associated skeleton (LR tmt, R rad, L uln and R dis uln, 7 verts, LR cmc, fem frag, LR tbt frag, 6 ped phas); MCMa 1819.013, associated skeleton (hum frags, R uln frags, rad frags, syn, verts, tbt frags, LR tmt, ped pha); MCMa 1824.013, associated skeleton (man frags, R tbt frag, R tmt, ped pha) Gruta de Santo Antonio: MCMa 1820.013, associated skeleton (sku, man frags, R cor, scap frag, R hum frag, syns frag, verts, quad, R fem frag, R tmt, R tbt frag, ped pha); MCMa 1825.013, associated skeleton (sku frags, R cor, syns frag, pel frags, L fem frag, LR tbt ... : 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 172-178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233597 ... |
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