Gallirallus dieffenbachii
| Kingdom |
Phylum |
Class |
Order |
Family |
| ANIMALIA |
CHORDATA |
AVES |
GRUIFORMES |
RALLIDAE |
| Scientific Name: |
Gallirallus dieffenbachii |
| Species Authority: |
(Gray, 1843) |
Common Name/s:
| English |
– |
Dieffenbach's Rail |
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Assessment Information
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| Red List Category & Criteria: |
Extinct
ver 3.1
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| Year Published: |
2012 |
| Assessor/s: |
BirdLife International |
| Reviewer/s: |
Butchart, S. & Symes, A. |
| Contributor/s: |
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Justification:
This species was found on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, but was driven to extinction by the depredations of introduced species. The type material was collected in 1840, and it was Extinct by 1872.
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| History: |
| 2008 |
– |
Extinct
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| 2004 |
– |
Extinct
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| 2000 |
– |
Extinct
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| 1994 |
– |
Extinct
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| 1988 |
– |
Extinct
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Geographic Range
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| Range Description: |
Gallirallus dieffenbachii was endemic to Chatham, Mangere and Pitt Islands, New Zealand (Marchant and Higgins 1993). It is known from the type, in Tring(Knox and Walters 1994), with one other specimen reported to be in Bremen (Greenway 1967), and from abundant subfossil material (Tennyson and Millener 1994). The species was already scarce when the type was collected in 1840, and was extinct by 1872 (Marchant and Higgins 1993).
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| Countries: |
Regionally extinct: New Zealand |
| Range Map: |
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Habitat and Ecology
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| Habitat and Ecology: |
Nothing is known, though it may have inhabited scrub or forest.
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| Systems: |
Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): |
Its extinction was presumably due to predation by introduced rats, cats and dogs, and habitat loss from fire (Marchant and Higgins 1993).
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