Pico rail

Pico rail; Temporal range: Holocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Artist's illustration of Rallus montevargorum (marked with 'a') as it may have appeared while living.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Rallus
Species:	†R. montevagorum
Binomial name
	†Rallus montevagorum; Alcover et. al., 2015

Short description: Extinct species of bird

The Pico rail (Rallus montevagorum) is an extinct species of Rallus that inhabited Pico Island in the Azores during the Holocene epoch.^[1]

References

↑ Josep Antoni Alcover; Harald Pieper; Fernando Pereira; Juan Carlos Rando (2015). "Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean)". Zootaxa 4057 (2): 151–190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1. PMID 26701473.

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Pico rail Temporal range: Holocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓

Artist's illustration of Rallus montevargorum (marked with 'a') as it may have appeared while living.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Rallus
Species:	†R. montevagorum
Binomial name
†Rallus montevagorum Alcover et. al., 2015