| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | GRUIFORMES | RALLIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Fulica newtoni | |||
| Species Authority: | Milne-Edwards, 1867 | |||
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| Red List Category & Criteria: | Extinct ver 3.1 | ||||||||||||
| Year Assessed: | 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Assessor/s: | BirdLife International | ||||||||||||
| Reviewer/s: | Bird, J., Butchart, S. | ||||||||||||
| History: |
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| Range Description: | Fulica newtoni is known from numerous travellers' reports1 and bones2 from Réunion (to France), and also probably occurred on Mauritius from where there were reports of poule d'eau, the contemporary name used for the birds on Réunion1. Birds were last reported on Réunion (by Dubois) in 1672, and on Mauritius (by Leguat) in 16931. |
| Habitat and Ecology: | Nothing is known, but it is likely to have been typical of the genus. |
| Systems: | Freshwater |
| Major Threat(s): | They were presumably hunted to extinction, despite the fact that they were "not good to eat"1. |
| Citation: | BirdLife International 2008. Fulica newtoni. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012. |
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