Nesoclopeus poecilopterus

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:

Nesoclopeus poecilopterus

Species Authority:

(Hartlaub, 1866)

Common Name/s:

English

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Bar-winged 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
1996	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Nesocolpeus poecilopterus is known from 12 19th century specimens from Vitu Levu and Ovalau⁴, and reports from Taveuni¹ in 1971 and Waisa, Vitu Levu, in 1973³, Fiji. There have been no convincing recent reports from Ovalau or Taveuni which remain mongoose-free and where other rail species were recorded during field surveys and other fieldwork in 2002-2005, and so it seems very likely that N. poecilopterus is extinct⁵.

Range Description:

Nesocolpeus poecilopterus is known from 12 19th century specimens from Vitu Levu and Ovalau⁴, and reports from Taveuni¹ in 1971 and Waisa, Vitu Levu, in 1973³, Fiji. There have been no convincing recent reports from Ovalau or Taveuni which remain mongoose-free and where other rail species were recorded during field surveys and other fieldwork in 2002-2005, and so it seems very likely that N. poecilopterus is extinct⁵.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It formerly inhabited the forests of the interior.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Two other (non-endemic) rails have become extinct from the islands due to predation by introduced mongooses and cats, and so it seems very likely that this also caused the extinction of N. poecilopterus ².

Major Threat(s):

Two other (non-endemic) rails have become extinct from the islands due to predation by introduced mongooses and cats, and so it seems very likely that this also caused the extinction of N. poecilopterus ².

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Nesoclopeus poecilopterus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 08 February 2012.
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