St. Helena Rail / Zapornia astrictocarpus
WBN 
St. Helena Rail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Smith.Contrib.Paleobiol. 23
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Zapornia
Taxonomy Code: sthrai1
Type Locality:
Author: Olson
Publish Year: 1975
IUCN Status: Extinct
DEFINITIONS
ZAPORNIA
(Rallidae; Ϯ Little Crake Z. parva) Anagram of genus Porzana Vieillot, 1816, crake; "ZAPORNIA. CRAKER. ... RALLUS. Gmel., Lath. GALLINULA. Beck., Temm. ZAPORNIA. Leach. OF this genus, which was separated by Dr Leach from the Crakes, there is but one species known. ... LITTLE CRAKER. (Zapornia pusilla.) ... Zapornia minuta. Leach, Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 34" (Stephens 1824).
Var. Zaporina, Lapornia.
Synon. Aphanolimnas, Kittlitzia, Limnobaenus, Limnocorax, Nesophylax, Palugalla, Pennula, Phalaridion, Porzanoidea, Porzanula, Rallites, Schoenocrex.
astrictocarpus
L. astrictus drawn together, tight < astringere to tighten; Mod. L. carpus wrist, carpus < Gr. καρπος karpos wrist; “referring to the peculiar approximation of the metacarpals in this species” (Olson 1973) (‡Zapornia).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
