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Kosrae Crake

Zapornia monasa

Extinct
Familie
Rallidae
Ordnung
Gruiformes

Über uns

Kosrae Crake (Zapornia monasa) is an extinct flightless rail formerly endemic to Kosrae in the Caroline Islands, Micronesia. Known from bones and a single 19th-century description. Dark plumage, reduced wings. Extirpated following Polynesian and later European settlement; likely lost to introduced rats and cats.

Habitat & Range

Erhaltungsstatus

Extinct
IUCN Red List

Taxonomie

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Ordnung Gruiformes (Kraniche und Rallen)
Familie Rallidae (Rallen, Sumpfhühner und Blässhühner)
Genus Zapornia
Arten Zapornia monasa

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Is the Kosrae Crake endangered?
The Kosrae Crake has a conservation status of Extinct.
What order and family does the Kosrae Crake belong to?
The Kosrae Crake (Zapornia monasa) belongs to the order Gruiformes and the family Rallidae.

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