Huahine rail
| Huahine rail Temporal range: Late Holocene
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Gallirallus |
| Species: | †G. storrsolsoni
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gallirallus storrsolsoni Kirchman & Steadman, 2006
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The Huahine rail (Gallirallus storrsolsoni) was a species of
endemic to Huahine in the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It is known only from subfossil remains found at the Fa'ahia archaeological site on the island. Fa'ahia is an early Polynesian occupation site with radiocarbon dates ranging from 700 CE to 1200 CE. The rail is only one of a suite of birds found at the site which became extinct
either locally or globally following human occupation of the island.
Etymology
The species was named after
Storrs Olson
to recognise his contributions to the systematics, paleontology and evolution of flightless rails on islands.
References
- Kirchman, Jeremy J.; & Steadman, David W. (2006). New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) From an Archaeological Site on Huahine, Society Islands. Pacific Science 60: 281. [1]
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