Hawaiian rail

Hawaiian rail
Light and dark form

Extinct (c.1884) (IUCN 3.1)

Presumed Extinct (c.1884) (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Zapornia
Species:
†Z. sandwichensis
Binomial name
†Zapornia sandwichensis
(Gmelin, 1789)
Synonyms
  • Rallus sandwichensis Gmelin, 1789
  • Rallus obscurus Gmelin, 1789
  • Pennula millei (lapsus) Dole, 1878
  • Pennula millsi
  • Pennula wilsoni Finsch, 1898
  • Pennula ecaudata King
  • Porzana sandwichensis

The Hawaiian rail (Zapornia sandwichensis), Hawaiian spotted rail, or Hawaiian crake is an extinct species of diminutive rail that lived on Big Island of Hawaiʻi. In Hawaiian, the common name for this species is moho, which it shares with the extinct Laysan Rail.

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