Barbados rail
| Barbados rail Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
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Fulica podagrica (Brodkorb, 1965) (invalid) | |
The Barbados rail is a fossil
Ragged Point on Barbados.[2]
Etymology
Brodkorb's previous species epithet is derived from the Greek term "podagrikos" (which means affected with gout). This applied in allusion to the large size of the leg elements.[2]
References
- ^ a b Storrs Olson: A new species of Nesotrochis from Hispaniola, with notes on other fossil rails from the West Indies (Aves: Rallidae) In: Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 87, 38:p 439-450, 1974
- ^ ISBN 0-87474-804-6