Ascension Crake
Mundia elpenor(Olson, SL, 1973)
English (US) Ascension Crake
The Ascension Crake (Mundia elpenor) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, and Coots) in the order Gruiformes.
Range: formerly Ascension Island; extinct, may have survived until 1815Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Mundia elpenor
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Extinct
- English (US)
- Ascension Crake
- Described by
- (Olson, SL, 1973)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Atlantisia elpenor
- Described by
- (Olson, SL, 1973)
- Original description
- Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 152 p.ii,7
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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