Family: Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, Coots)

Authority: (Forbes, 1892)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species was known from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, but is now Extinct as a result of hunting and introduced predators. It is known only from the fossil record and two accounts describing recollections of the species. The oldest member of the Moriori Polynesians was questioned and his recollections were described in a letter in 1895 (Hume 2017); based on this evidence the species is thought to have persisted into at least the late 1800s.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Terrestrial