Tahiti crake

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]

Illustration by John Frederick Miller

Tahiti crake
Drawing by Georg Forster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Zapornia
Species:
Z. nigra
Binomial name
Zapornia nigra
Synonyms

Rallus nigra

Nesophylax niger

Porzana nigra

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Porzana nigra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. 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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