Madeira rail

Madeira rail; Temporal range: Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Illustration of Rallus lowei as it may have looked.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Rallus
Species:	†R. lowei
Binomial name
	†Rallus lowei; Alcover et. al., 2015

Last updated February 08, 2026

The Madeira rail (Rallus lowei) is an extinct species of Rallus that inhabited Madeira Island in Madeira during the Holocene epoch.^[1]

References

↑ Josep Antoni Alcover; Harald Pieper; Fernando Pereira; Juan Carlos Rando (2015). "Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean)". Zootaxa . 4057 (2): 151–190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1. hdl: 10261/132286 . PMID 26701473.

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[ZT40572-1] Josep Antoni Alcover; Harald Pieper; Fernando Pereira; Juan Carlos Rando (2015). "Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean)". Zootaxa . 4057 (2): 151–190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1. hdl: 10261/132286 . PMID 26701473.

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Madeira rail Temporal range: Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓

Illustration of Rallus lowei as it may have looked.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Rallus
Species:	†R. lowei
Binomial name
†Rallus lowei Alcover et. al., 2015