Zapornia
| Zapornia | |
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| Black crake, Zapornia flavirostra | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Zapornia Leach, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Zapornia minuta[1] = Rallus parvus Leach, 1816
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Zapornia is a genus of birds in the rail family Rallidae.
Taxonomy[edit]
The genus Zapornia was introduced in 1816 by the English zoologist William Elford Leach in a catalogue of animals in the British Museum. He included a single species, the little crake which is therefore the type species.[2] The genus name is an anagram of the genus Porzana that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis-Pierre Vieillot.[3] The species now placed in this genus were formerly assigned to Porzana and Amaurornis.[4][5]
The genus contains the following species:[4]
- Black crake, Zapornia flavirostra (formerly placed in Amaurornis)
- Sakalava rail, Zapornia olivieri (formerly placed in Amaurornis)
- Ruddy-breasted crake, Zapornia fusca (formerly placed in Porzana)
- Band-bellied crake, Zapornia paykullii (formerly placed in Porzana)
- Black-tailed crake, Zapornia bicolor (formerly placed in Porzana)
- Brown crake, Zapornia akool (formerly placed in Porzana)
- Baillon's crake, Zapornia pusilla (formerly placed in Porzana)
- † St. Helena crake, Zapornia astrictocarpus (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana)
- Little crake, Zapornia parva (formerly placed in Porzana)
- Spotless crake, Zapornia tabuensis (formerly placed in Porzana)
- † Kosrae crake, Zapornia monasa (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana)
- † Tahiti crake, Zapornia nigra (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana)
- Henderson crake, Zapornia atra (formerly placed in Porzana)
- † Hawaiian rail, Zapornia sandwichensis (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana)
- † Laysan rail, Zapornia palmeri (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana)
References[edit]
- ^ "Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ^ Leach, William Elford (1816). Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that are Preserved in the British Museum: with Their Localities and Authorities. London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor. p. 34.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 413. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
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