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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | Not Listed |
| IUCN Status: | Extinct |
| U.S. ESA Status: | Not Listed |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
Nothing is known; it may have inhabited forest or marshland.
Range:
Porphyrio albus is known from two skins in Liverpool (U.K.) and Vienna (Austria) (Taylor and van Perlo 1998), several paintings, and some subfossil bones from Lord Howe Island, Australia (Marchant and Higgins 1993). Although not uncommon when discovered in 1788, the species was rapidly hunted to extinction; it had probably already vanished by the time the island was colonised in 1834 (Hindwood 1940).