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Extinct species of louse

Rallicola extinctus
Conservation status

Extinct (1907) (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Psocodea
Family: Philopteridae
Genus: Rallicola
Subgenus: †Huiacola
Mey, 1990
Species: †R. extinctus
Binomial name
†Rallicola extinctus
(Mey, 1990)
Synonyms
  • Huiacola extinctus Mey, 1990

Rallicola extinctus is an extinct species of phtilopterid louse. The parasite was only known to live on the now extinct huia and is thought to have become extinct with its host. Like its host, it was endemic to New Zealand's North Island.

Taxonomy

It was initially placed in its own separate genus, Huiacola, which means "huia inhabitant", but this is now considered a subgenus.

References

  1. "Rallicola extinctus. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  2. Palma, R. L. (1999): Amendments and additions to the 1982 list of chewing lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) from birds in New Zealand. Notornis 46(3): 373–387. PDF fulltext Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Mey, Eberhard (1990): Eine neue ausgestorbene Vogel-Ischnozere von Neuseeland, Huiacola extinctus (Insecta, Phthiraptera). Zoologischer Anzeiger 224(1/2): 49-73. PDF fulltext Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine

External links

  • Article containing an image of R. extinctus.
Taxon identifiers
Rallicola extinctus


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