Rallus minutus Alcover, Pieper, Pereira & Rando, 2015, n. sp. ...
Rallus minutus R. minutus n. sp. is one of the most distinctive species found. It is a dwarf rail, the smallest among the Macaronesian species, only slightly larger than Atlantisia rogersi, with robust leg bones (especially tarsometatarsus) and reduced wings. Its bill is relatively curved and the bi...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.6119650 2024-02-04T10:02:42+01:00 Rallus minutus Alcover, Pieper, Pereira & Rando, 2015, n. sp. ... Alcover, Josep Antoni Pieper, Harald Pereira, Fernando Rando, Juan Carlos 2015 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119650 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6119650 unknown Zenodo http://zenodo.org/record/233597 http://publication.plazi.org/id/5C03170CFFDF5B6563441253FFD95737 https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/A03A6F74FFC05B4763D314B9FAE855B2 https://www.gbif.org/species/119647073 https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/39301/taxon/A03A6F74FFC05B4763D314B9FAE855B2.taxon http://zoobank.org/BADD5843-1566-4BF8-A507-7369C1F5B950 https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1 http://zenodo.org/record/233597 http://publication.plazi.org/id/5C03170CFFDF5B6563441253FFD95737 https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/A03A6F74FFC05B4763D314B9FAE855B2 https://www.gbif.org/species/119647073 https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/39301/taxon/A03A6F74FFC05B4763D314B9FAE855B2.taxon https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.233614 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.233618 http://zoobank.org/BADD5843-1566-4BF8-A507-7369C1F5B950 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6119649 Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode cc0-1.0 Biodiversity Taxonomy Animalia Chordata Aves Gruiformes Rallidae Rallus Rallus minutus Taxonomic treatment ScholarlyArticle Text article-journal 2015 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.611965010.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.110.5281/zenodo.23361410.5281/zenodo.23361810.5281/zenodo.6119649 2024-01-05T10:34:25Z Rallus minutus R. minutus n. sp. is one of the most distinctive species found. It is a dwarf rail, the smallest among the Macaronesian species, only slightly larger than Atlantisia rogersi, with robust leg bones (especially tarsometatarsus) and reduced wings. Its bill is relatively curved and the bill to total skull length ratio is slightly larger than in R. aquaticus. A long and curved bill in insular rails might be related to foraging by probing in soft soil, deep litter and mosses, as suggested elsewhere for Capellirallus karamu from New Zealand (Worthy and Holdaway 2002). The bones of R. minutus n. sp. are generally similar to those of R. aquaticus, but differ considerably in size and proportions. All the bones are clearly shorter than their respective R. aquaticus counterparts. R. minutus n. sp. combines reduced wing bones (mainly carpometacarpus and ulna) with relatively short and massive leg bones (mainly tarsometatarsus). The humerus, ulna and carpometacarpus are 35%, 47% and 49% shorter than in R. ... : 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 182-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233597 ... Text North Atlantic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) New Zealand |
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Rallus minutus R. minutus n. sp. is one of the most distinctive species found. It is a dwarf rail, the smallest among the Macaronesian species, only slightly larger than Atlantisia rogersi, with robust leg bones (especially tarsometatarsus) and reduced wings. Its bill is relatively curved and the bill to total skull length ratio is slightly larger than in R. aquaticus. A long and curved bill in insular rails might be related to foraging by probing in soft soil, deep litter and mosses, as suggested elsewhere for Capellirallus karamu from New Zealand (Worthy and Holdaway 2002). The bones of R. minutus n. sp. are generally similar to those of R. aquaticus, but differ considerably in size and proportions. All the bones are clearly shorter than their respective R. aquaticus counterparts. R. minutus n. sp. combines reduced wing bones (mainly carpometacarpus and ulna) with relatively short and massive leg bones (mainly tarsometatarsus). The humerus, ulna and carpometacarpus are 35%, 47% and 49% shorter than in R. ... : 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 182-185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/233597 ... |
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