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Nesotrochis (cave-rail)

Osteichthyes - Gruiformes - Nesotrochidae

Taxonomy

Nesotrochis was named by Wetmore (1918). Its type is Nesotrochis debooyi.

It was assigned to Gallinulinae by Brodkorb (1967); to Rallidae by Lambrecht (1933), Wetmore (1956), Olson (1977), Carroll (1988); and to Nesotrochidae by Stervander et al. (2025).

Species

N. debooyi (type species), N. picapicensis, N. steganinos

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1918	Nesotrochis Wetmore p. 516
1933	Nesotrochis Lambrecht p. 467
1956	Nesotrochis Wetmore p. 65
1967	Nesotrochis Brodkorb p. 127
1977	Nesotrochis Olson p. 352
1988	Nesotrochis Carroll
2025	Nesotrochis Stervander et al. p. 90

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986

Rank	Name	Author
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
—	Neognathae	(Pycraft 1900)
—	Neoaves	Sibley et al. 1988
—	Terrestrornithes
—	Telmatorae
superorder	Charadriimorphae	Huxley 1867
order	Gruiformes	Bonaparte 1854
family	Nesotrochidae
genus	Nesotrochis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Nesotrochis Wetmore 1918 [cave-rail]

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†Nesotrochis debooyi Wetmore 1918 [Antillean cave rail]

†Nesotrochis picapicensis Fisher and Stephan 1971

†Nesotrochis steganinos Olson 1974

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:39:15

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:39:15

Source: subo = suborder, o = order

References: Benton 1983, Kiessling 2004, Marsh 1875

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Haiti	Nesotrochis steganinos (241344)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene	0.129 - 0.0	Puerto Rico	Nesotrochis debooyi (38848 127081 192222 241335)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Virgin Islands, U.S.	Nesotrochis debooyi (28879 38847 132605 241342 241343)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Puerto Rico	Nesotrochis debooyi (194583)