Species profile
Tsingy Forest Rail
Mentocrex beankaensis
Quick answer
Holotype. Département de Biologie Animale, Université d’Antananarivo (UADBA 48179). Adult male collected by S. M. Goodman and M. J. Raherilalao at Madagascar: Province de Mahajanga, District de Maintirano, Forêt de Beanka, 4.9 km S. Ambinda, 18 ° 3.7 ’ S, 44 ° 31.5 ’ E, 320 m, on 31 October 2009. The specimen bears the field number MJR 866 and was used in both the morphological and molecular analyses. Paratype. The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 431145). Female downy young collected by S. M. Goodman and D. W. Willard at Madagascar: Province de Mahajanga, Parc National de Bemaraha, S bank Manambolo River, 3.5 km NE Bekopaka, 19 ° 08.4 ’ S, 44 ° 49.7 ’ E, 100 m, on 4 December 2001. The specimen bears the field number DW 5363 and was used in both the morphological and molecular analyses.
- Scientific name
- Mentocrex beankaensis
- Family
- Sarothruridae
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Genus
- Mentocrex
- Conservation status
- Vulnerable
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