Red-throated wood rail | |
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Illustration by Keulemans, 1894 | |
Extinct (20th century?)
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Gruiformes |
Family: | Rallidae |
Genus: | Aramides |
Species: | †A. gutturalis
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Binomial name | |
†Aramides gutturalis Sharpe, 1894
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Synonyms | |
Aramides guttaralis Sharpe, 1894 (lapsus) |
The red-throated wood rail (Aramides gutturalis) is a disputed species of bird in the family Rallidae. If it is not a misidentification, it was endemic to Peru and apparently became extinct due to habitat loss some time in the 20th century.[1]
Following the 2006 SACC assessment which listed this species as dubious taxon BirdLife International removed the red-throated wood rail from the list of extinct species in 2009 as it might be either a badly prepared specimen of the grey-cowled wood rail A. cajanea or a subspecies of the brown wood rail A. wolfi.[2]