Red-throated wood rail

Red-throated wood rail
Illustration by Keulemans, 1894
Extinct (20th century?)
Scientific classification Edit this 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 family Rallidae. 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-cowled 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. Archived 2014-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
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