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Giant wood rail: Aramides ypecaha (Vieillot, 1819) 15 Red-winged wood rail: Aramides calopterus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1878: 16 Slaty-breasted wood rail: Aramides saracura (Spix, 1825) 17 Ridgway's rail: Rallus obsoletus Ridgway, 1874: 18 Clapper rail: Rallus crepitans Gmelin, JF, 1789: 19 Aztec rail: Rallus tenuirostris Ridgway, 1874: 20 ...
Topographic map of Texas. This is a list of mammals of Texas. Mammals native to or immediately off the coast of the U.S. state of Texas are listed first. Introduced mammals, whether intentional or unintentional, are listed separately. The varying geography of Texas, the second largest state, provides a large variety of habitats for mammals.
The Guam rail is an example of an island species that has been badly affected by introduced species. Some larger, more abundant rails are hunted and their eggs collected for food. [ 25 ] The Wake Island rail was hunted to extinction by the starving Japanese garrison after the island was cut off from supply during World War II . [ 26 ]
Of the 33 species of bats in Texas, the Mexican free-tailed bat is the state's official flying mammal. The species is famous for its massive colonies in Texas, particularly under Austin’s ...
A state mammal is the official mammal of a U.S. state as designated by a state's legislature. The first column of the table is for those denoted as the state mammal, and the second shows the state marine mammals.
The property came under the care of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and was officially made a state park in 2012. It is located halfway between Fredericksburg and Comfort on Old San Antonio Road. Since the shut down of the railway, the tunnel has become a bat cave, hosting over 3 million Mexican free-tailed bats and 3000 Cave myotis bats ...
Located at the Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin, Texas. The Angelina and Neches River Railroad (reporting mark ANR) (Angelina & Neches River Railroad) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Lufkin, Texas. ANR operates an 11.6 miles (18.7 km) line from Dunagan, Texas, to an interchange with Union Pacific Railroad at Lufkin. With all owned tracks ...
The clapper rail was formerly treated as a subspecies of the mangrove rail (Rallus longirostris). [5] The decision to treat the clapper rail as a separate species was based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study that was published in 2013. [8] [9] [10] A cladogram based on the 2013 genetic study is as follows: [8]