Species profile
Rallus gracilipes
Rallus gracilipes
Quick answer
Holotype. UF 420700, complete tarsometatarsus (Fig. 1). Collected through SCUBA diving by Brian Kakuk from the Owl Roost site, Sawmill Sink, Great Abaco Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Paratypes. UF 420706, complete humerus; UF 241630, complete ulna; UF 420711, partial femur; UF 420698, complete tibiotarsus; all specimens (Figs. 1, 2) from the type locality. Referred material. 4 tibiotarsi, 1 tarsometatarsus, 2 pedal phalanges, and 2 cervical vertebrae; UF 420699, 420701 – 420705, 420708 – 420710; all specimens from the type locality.
- Scientific name
- Rallus gracilipes
- Family
- Rallidae
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Genus
- Rallus
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