Tahiti crake
| Tahiti crake | |
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| Drawing by Georg Forster | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Zapornia |
| Species: | †Z. nigra
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| Binomial name | |
| †Zapornia nigra J. F. Miller, 1784
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| Synonyms | |
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Rallus nigra | |
The Tahiti crake (Zapornia nigra), also known as Miller's rail, was a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was endemic to Tahiti. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage.[2] John Frederick Miller copied Forster's painting and published it with some changes and remarks in his work Cimelia Physica in 1784. It probably went extinct in about 1800 from introduced predators. [2]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Porzana nigra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ a b Walters, M: Probable validity of Rallus nigra Miller, an extinct species from Tahiti. In: Notornis. Journal of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. Volume 35 Part 4 December 1988.
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