| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | GRUIFORMES | RALLIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Porphyrio albus | |||
| Species Authority: | (White, 1790) | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Extinct ver 3.1 | ||||||||||||
| Year Published: | 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Assessor/s: | BirdLife International | ||||||||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Bird, J., Butchart, S. | ||||||||||||
| History: |
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| Range Description: | Porphyrio albus is known from two skins (in Liverpool and Vienna4), several paintings, and some subfossil bones from Lord Howe Island, Australia3. Although not uncommon when discovered in 1790, the species was rapidly hunted to extinction; it had probably already vanished by the time the island was colonised in 18341. |
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| Habitat and Ecology: | Nothing is known, it may have inhabited forest or marshland. |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | It was hunted to extinction by whalers and sailors. |
| Citation: | BirdLife International 2008. Porphyrio albus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 May 2012. |
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