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Pico rail

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Pico rail
Temporal range: Holocene
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Rallus
Species:
R. montevagorum
Binomial name
Rallus montevagorum
Alcover et. al., 2015

The Pico rail (Rallus montevagorum) is an extinct species of Rallus that inhabited Pico Island in the Azores during the Holocene epoch.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Josep Antoni Alcover; Harald Pieper; Fernando Pereira; Juan Carlos Rando (2015). "Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean)". Zootaxa. 4057 (2): 151–190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1. hdl:10261/132286. PMID 26701473.