Family: Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, Coots)

Authority: (Gmelin, 1789)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species was known from the Society Islands, French Polynesia, but has been driven Extinct by cat and rat predation. It was abundant on Tahiti in 1844 but had disappeared by the end of the century, surviving on Mehetia where there were records until the the 1930s.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Realm - Oceanian
IUCN System - Terrestrial