Sharpe's rail

Sharpe's rail
Turnaround video of specimen RMNH 87485, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Gallirallus
Species: G. sharpei
Binomial name
Gallirallus sharpei
Büttikofer, 1893

The Sharpe's rail (Gallirallus sharpei) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is known only from the type specimen of unknown origin, but it has been speculated that it originated from Indonesia. Due to the lack of recent records, it has been considered extinct, but new evidence suggests it is possibly better regarded as a morph of the buff-banded rail.

The common name and Latin binomial name commemorate the British zoologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe.[1]

Notes

  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 309.

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