page_title: Gallirallus
section_title: Species extinct before A.D. 1500
hierarchical_section_title: Gallirallus / Species extinct before A.D. 1500
caption_attribution_description: Unnamed extinct Gallirallus species from Vava'u, Tonga.
context_page_description: Gallirallus is a genus of rails that live in the Australasian-Pacific region. The genus is characterised by an ability to colonise relatively small and isolated islands and thereafter to evolve flightless forms, many of which became extinct following Polynesian settlement.
context_section_description: Nuku Hiva rail, Gallirallus epulare
  New Ireland rail, Gallirallus ernstmayri
  Ua Huka rail, Gallirallus gracilitibia
  Niue rail, Gallirallus huiatua 
  Tinian rail, Gallirallus pendiculentus
  Aguiguan rail, Gallirallus pisonii
  Mangaia rail, Gallirallus ripleyi
  Tahuata rail, Gallirallus roletti
  Tubuai rail, Gallirallus steadmani
  Huahine rail, Gallirallus storrsolsoni
  Rota rail, Gallirallus temptatus
  ‘Eua rail, Gallirallus vekamatolu - possibly survived to the early 19th century
  Hiva Oa rail, ?Gallirallus sp.
  Vava'u Rail, Gallirallus [Hypotaenidia] vavauensis Worthy & Burley 2020.
caption: Illustration of an unidentified extinct species (possibly G. vekamatolu) from Vava'u, 1739
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