Antillean Cave Rail
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| Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore, 1918 |
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 Location of Puerto Rico.
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The Antillean Cave Rail (Nesotrochis debooyi) also known as DeBooy's Rail is an extinct rail species which occurred on Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. Bone fragments of this species were first unearthed by archaeologist Theodoor de Booy in kitchen midden deposits in the Toraño Cave near Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands in July 1916 and described by Alexander Wetmore in 1918. The Antillean Cave Rail became extinct before the arrival of the Europeans. The Antillean Cave Rail was apparently flightless and was hunted as food for the arborigines
[edit] References
- Wetmore, A. (1918): Bones of birds collected by Theodoor de Booy from Kitchen Midden deposits in the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix
- Olson, S. L. (1974): A new species of Nesotrochis from Hispaniola, with notes on other fossil rails from the West Indies (Aves: Rallidae)
[edit] External links
- The Auk Vol. 55 (1938), p. 51: Bird remains from the West Indies by Alexander Wetmore
- Catalogue of Fossil birds by Pierce Brodkorb Part 3 - Family Rallidae p. 127
- Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 46, article 4., 1922
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