Barbados rail
The Barbados rail is an extinct species of rail that was endemic to Barbados . Pierce Brodkorb originally described it as Fulica podagrica in 1965 . Storrs Lovejoy Olson , however, expressed doubts about this classification in 1974. Although the humerus bones are similar to those of the American coot ( Fulica americana ), most of the thighbone , tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus fragments found came from a larger, previously undetermined species of claw that was not closely related to the coot ( Fulica ) . Olson therefore assumes that Brodkorbs material is the bones of different billy birds that were mixed together in the deposits. The bone material found comes from the Young Pleistocene deposits in Saint Philip Parish and Ragged Point on Barbados.
etymology
Brodkorb's original type of epithet is derived from the Greek word "podagrikos" (German: affected by gout). This is an allusion to the size of the leg bone fragments.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Storrs Olson: A new species of Nesotrochis from Hispaniola, with notes on other fossil rails from the West Indies (Aves: Rallidae) In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 87, 38, 1974, pp. 439-450.
- ↑ a b c d Storrs Olson: A synopsis on the fossil Rallidae. In: Sidney Dillon Ripley: Rails of the World - A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. Codline. Boston 1977, ISBN 0874748046 .
literature
- Storrs Olson: A new species of Nesotrochis from Hispaniola, with notes on other fossil rails from the West Indies (Aves: Rallidae). In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 87, 38, 1974, pp. 439-450.
- Storrs Olson: A synopsis on the fossil Rallidae In: Sidney Dillon Ripley: Rails of the World - A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. Codline. Boston 1977, ISBN 0874748046 .