ʻEua rail

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ʻEua rail
Temporal range: Holocene
Illustration of an unidentified extinct species (possibly G. vekamatolu) from Vavaʻu, 1739
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Gallirallus
Species:
G. vekamatolu
Binomial name
Gallirallus vekamatolu
Kirchman & Steadman, 2005[1]

The ʻEua rail (Gallirallus vekamatolu) is an

subfossil bones found on the island of ʻEua, in the Kingdom of Tonga of West Polynesia.[1]

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