Nesotrochis

Nesotrochis; Temporal range: Late Pleistocene to Holocene
	leg and foot bones of Nesotrochis debooyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	†Nesotrochis; Wetmore, 1918
Species
	†N. debooyi Wetmore, 1918; †N. steganinos Olson, 1974; †N. picapicensis Fischer & Stephan, 1971;

Nesotrochis is a genus of extinct flightless rails in the family Rallidae.[1] Its species are considered examples of insular gigantism.[1] This genus, only known empirically from subfossil remains, contains the following species, which are collectively known as West Indian cave-rails:

Antillean cave rail, Nesotrochis debooyi (Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands, West Indies) - may have survived until historic times
Haitian cave-rail, Nesotrochis steganinos (Haiti, West Indies) - prehistoric
Cuban cave-rail, Nesotrochis picapicensis (Cuba, West Indies) - prehistoric

References

Livezey, Bradley C. (22 October 1997). "A phylogenetic analysis of the Gruiformes (Aves) based on morphological characters, with an emphasis on the rails (Rallidae)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 353 (1378): 2077–2151. doi:10.1098/rstb.1998.0353. PMC 1692427.

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[Livezey-1] Livezey, Bradley C. (22 October 1997). "A phylogenetic analysis of the Gruiformes (Aves) based on morphological characters, with an emphasis on the rails (Rallidae)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 353 (1378): 2077–2151. doi:10.1098/rstb.1998.0353. PMC 1692427.