Rallus lowei Alcover, Pieper, Pereira & Rando, 2015, n. sp. ...
Rallus lowei R. lowei n. sp. is a highly distinctive species. It belongs to a group that combines robust leg bones (especially the tarsometatarsus) with small wings. It is the largest and heaviest member of this group, which also includes R. carvaoensis n. sp. and R. minutus n. sp. Two almost comple...
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119640 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6119640 |
| Summary: | Rallus lowei R. lowei n. sp. is a highly distinctive species. It belongs to a group that combines robust leg bones (especially the tarsometatarsus) with small wings. It is the largest and heaviest member of this group, which also includes R. carvaoensis n. sp. and R. minutus n. sp. Two almost complete humeri of R. lowei n. sp., were available for study. One of them is from an adult and measures ca. 29.7 mm, which represents about a 24% reduction compared with the average humerus length of R. aquaticus (Figure 11). This estimated humerus length falls between the average humerus lengths of the larger R. montivagorum n. sp. and R. adolfocaesaris and the smaller R. carvaoensis n. sp. and R. minutus n. sp. The ulna of R. lowei is shorter than in R. aquaticus (27% shorter), and than R. montivagorum n. sp. from Pico (14%), but longer than in R. minutus n. sp. (39%). Its femur is slightly longer than in the Rallus species of Porto Santo, São Miguel and Pico, notably longer (28%) than in R. minutus n. sp. but shorter ... : 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 179-180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233597 ... |
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