Red-throated Wood Rail

Red-throated Wood Rail
Illustration by Keulemans, 1894
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Aramides
Species: A. gutturalis
Binomial name
Aramides gutturalis
Sharpe, 1894
Synonyms

Aramides guttaralis Sharpe, 1894 (lapsus)

The Red-throated Wood Rail (Aramides gutturalis) is a disputed species of bird in the Rallidae family. If it is not a misidentification, it was endemic to Peru and apparently became extinct due to habitat loss some time in the 20th century.[1]

Following the 2006 SACC assessment which listed this species as dubious taxon BirdLife International removed the Red-throated Wood Rail from the list of extinct species in 2009 as it might be either a badly prepared specimen of the Grey-necked Wood Rail A. cajanea or a subspecies of the Brown Wood Rail A. wolfi.[2]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International 2008. Aramides gutturalis. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 February 2009.
  2. ^ Red-throated Wood-rail Aramides guttularis: this extinct taxon is no longer recognised.