Barbados Rail

The Barbados - Rail is an extinct Rallenart that was endemic to Barbados. Pierce Brodkorb described it in 1965 originally as Fulica podagrica. However Storrs Lovejoy Olson filed for 1974 doubts about this classification. Although the humerus have similarities with those of the American Coot (Fulica americana ) or the Karibenblässhuhns (Fulica caribaea ), most found femur, tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus fragments originated but of a larger, yet-undetermined Rallenart that are not closer to the coots (Fulica ) was used. Olson therefore assumes that it is Brodkorbs material is the bones of various Rail birds that were mixed in the sediments together. The bone material found comes from the upper pleistocene deposits in Saint Philip Parish and in Ragged Point in Barbados.

Etymology

Brodkorbs original specific epithet is derived from the Greek word " podagrikos " ( German: of the gout affected) from. This is an allusion to the size of the leg bone fragments.