Laysan Rail
Laysan Rail
Here the details of the Laysan Rail named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Porzanula Palmeri Ann.Mag.Nat.Hist.(6), 9 p.247
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Zapornia
Taxonomy Code: layrai
Type Locality: Laysan Island, lat. 25° 46'' N.; long. 171° 49'' W.
Author: Frohawk
Publish Year: 1892
IUCN Status: Extinct
DEFINITIONS
ZAPORNIA
(Rallidae; Ϯ Little Crake Z. parva) Anagram of genus Porzana Vieillot, 1816, crake; "ZAPORNIA. CRAKER. ... RALLUS. Gmel., Lath. GALLINULA. Beck., Temm. ZAPORNIA. Leach. OF this genus, which was separated by Dr Leach from the Crakes, there is but one species known. ... LITTLE CRAKER. (Zapornia pusilla.) ... Zapornia minuta. Leach, Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 34" (Stephens 1824).
Var. Zaporina, Lapornia.
Synon. Aphanolimnas, Kittlitzia, Limnobaenus, Limnocorax, Nesophylax, Palugalla, Pennula, Phalaridion, Porzanoidea, Porzanula, Rallites, Schoenocrex.
palmeri
● Palmer River, southern New Guinea (subsp. Colluricincla megarhyncha).
● William Palmer (1856-1921) US taxidermist at Smithsonian Instituition 1874-1921, collector in Cuba 1900 and Java 1909-1910 (syn. Hirundo rustica erythrogaster, subsp. Synoicus chinensis, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).
● Henry Charles Palmer (1866-1920) English collector for Lord Rothschild in California 1889, Chatham Is. 1890, Hawaiian Is. 1890–1893, and Midway 1893, emigrated to Australia 1894 (Björn Bergenholtz and Justin Jansen in litt.) (Myadestes, ‡Rhodacanthis, ‡Zapornia).
● Dr Theodore Sherman Palmer (1868-1955) US zoologist at Department of Agriculture 1889-1933, nomenclatorist, philologist (syn. Oreortyx pictus).
● Mervyn George Palmer (1882-1955) English naturalist, collector in tropical America (Tangara).
● Dr Edward Palmer (1831-1911) US botanist, explorer, collector (subsp. Toxostoma curvirostre).
● Prof. Ralph Simon Palmer (1914-2003) US zoologist (subsp. Vireo leucophrys).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)