Gallirallus wakensis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	GRUIFORMES	RALLIDAE

Scientific Name:

Gallirallus wakensis

Species Authority:

(Rothschild, 1903)

Common Name/s:

English

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Wake Island Rail

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

History:

2004	–	Extinct
2000	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct
1988	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Gallirallus wakensis was endemic to Wake Island in the central Pacific Ocean, United States Minor Outlying Islands (to USA)¹. Although it was not uncommon before the Second World War, it was extinct by 1945¹.

Range Description:

Gallirallus wakensis was endemic to Wake Island in the central Pacific Ocean, United States Minor Outlying Islands (to USA)¹. Although it was not uncommon before the Second World War, it was extinct by 1945¹.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It inhabited scrub throughout the island.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It was presumably eaten to extinction by the starving Japanese garrison between 1942 and 1945¹.

Major Threat(s):

It was presumably eaten to extinction by the starving Japanese garrison between 1942 and 1945¹.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Gallirallus wakensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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