Pico rail

Pico rail; Temporal range: Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Artist's illustration of Rallus montevargorum (marked with 'a') as it may have appeared while living.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Rallus
Species:	†R. montevagorum
Binomial name
	†Rallus montevagorum; Alcover et. al., 2015

Last updated February 08, 2026

The Pico rail (Rallus montevagorum) is an extinct species of Rallus that inhabited Pico Island in the Azores 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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Pico rail Temporal range: Holocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓

Artist's illustration of Rallus montevargorum (marked with 'a') as it may have appeared while living.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Rallus
Species:	†R. montevagorum
Binomial name
†Rallus montevagorum Alcover et. al., 2015