List of rail species

The avian family Rallidae comprise the rails, crakes, and coots. The International Ornithological Congress (IOC) recognizes these 152 species distributed among 44 genera, 23 of which have only one species. Twenty-one of the species in the list have gone extinct since A.D. 1500; they are marked (E).

This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.

List

Common name	Binomial name	IOC sequence
Grey-throated rail	Canirallus oculeus	1
Ash-throated crake	Mustelirallus albicollis	2
Paint-billed crake	Neocrex erythrops	3
Colombian crake	Neocrex colombiana	4
Zapata rail	Cyanolimnas cerverai	5
Spotted rail	Pardirallus maculatus	6
Blackish rail	Pardirallus nigricans	7
Plumbeous rail	Pardirallus sanguinolentus	8
Uniform crake	Amaurolimnas concolor	9
Rufous-necked wood rail	Aramides axillaris	10
Little wood rail	Aramides mangle	11
Russet-naped wood rail	Aramides albiventris	12
Grey-cowled wood rail	Aramides cajaneus	13
Brown wood rail	Aramides wolfi	14
Giant wood rail	Aramides ypecaha	15
Red-winged wood rail	Aramides calopterus	16
Slaty-breasted wood rail	Aramides saracura	17
Ridgway's rail	Rallus obsoletus	18
Clapper rail	Rallus crepitans	19
Aztec rail	Rallus tenuirostris	20
Mangrove rail	Rallus longirostris	21
King rail	Rallus elegans	22
Plain-flanked rail	Rallus wetmorei	23
Virginia rail	Rallus limicola	24
Bogota rail	Rallus semiplumbeus	25
Ecuadorian rail	Rallus aequatorialis	26
Austral rail	Rallus antarcticus	27
Water rail	Rallus aquaticus	28
Brown-cheeked rail	Rallus indicus	29
African rail	Rallus caerulescens	30
Madagascan rail	Rallus madagascariensis	31
African crake	Crecopsis egregia	32
Rouget's rail	Rougetius rougetii	33
White-throated rail	Dryolimnas cuvieri	34
Reunion rail	Dryolimnas augusti (E)	35
Corn crake	Crex crex	36
Snoring rail	Aramidopsis plateni	37
Slaty-breasted rail	Lewinia striata	38
Brown-banded rail	Lewinia mirifica	39
Lewin's rail	Lewinia pectoralis	40
Auckland rail	Lewinia muelleri	41
Hawkins's rail	Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi (E)	42
Invisible rail	Habroptila wallacii	43
Calayan rail	Gallirallus calayanensis	44
Weka	Gallirallus australis	45
Chestnut rail	Eulabeornis castaneoventris	46
New Caledonian rail	Cabalus lafresnayanus	47
Chatham rail	Cabalus modestus (E)	48
Okinawa rail	Hypotaenidia okinawae	49
Barred rail	Hypotaenidia torquata	50
Buff-banded rail	Hypotaenidia philippensis	51
Guam rail	Hypotaenidia owstoni	52
Pink-legged rail	Hypotaenidia insignis	53
Roviana rail	Hypotaenidia rovianae	54
Woodford's rail	Hypotaenidia woodfordi	55
Bar-winged rail	Hypotaenidia poeciloptera (E)	56
Lord Howe woodhen	Hypotaenidia sylvestris	57
Dieffenbach's rail	Hypotaenidia dieffenbachii (E)	58
Tahiti rail	Hypotaenidia pacifica (E)	59
Wake Island rail	Hypotaenidia wakensis (E)	60
Spot-flanked gallinule	Porphyriops melanops	61
Sora	Porzana carolina	62
Spotted crake	Porzana porzana	63
Australian crake	Porzana fluminea	64
Black-tailed nativehen	Tribonyx ventralis	65
Tasmanian nativehen	Tribonyx mortierii	66
Lesser moorhen	Paragallinula angulata	67
Dusky moorhen	Gallinula tenebrosa	68
Common gallinule	Gallinula galeata	69
Common moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	70
Tristan moorhen	Gallinula nesiotis (E)	71
Gough moorhen	Gallinula comeri	72
Makira woodhen	Gallinula silvestris	73
Samoan woodhen	Gallinula pacifica (E)	74
Red-fronted coot	Fulica rufifrons	75
Horned coot	Fulica cornuta	76
Giant coot	Fulica gigantea	77
Red-gartered coot	Fulica armillata	78
Eurasian coot	Fulica atra	79
Red-knobbed coot	Fulica cristata	80
Mascarene coot	Fulica newtonii (E)	81
Hawaiian coot	Fulica alai	82
American coot	Fulica americana	83
Andean coot	Fulica ardesiaca	84
White-winged coot	Fulica leucoptera	85
Allen's gallinule	Porphyrio alleni	86
Purple gallinule	Porphyrio martinica	87
Azure gallinule	Porphyrio flavirostris	88
Western swamphen	Porphyrio porphyrio	89
African swamphen	Porphyrio madagascariensis	90
Grey-headed swamphen	Porphyrio poliocephalus	91
Black-backed swamphen	Porphyrio indicus	92
Philippine swamphen	Porphyrio pulverulentus	93
Australasian swamphen	Porphyrio melanotus	94
White swamphen	Porphyrio albus (E)	95
North Island takahe	Porphyrio mantelli (E)	96
South Island takahe	Porphyrio hochstetteri	97
Ocellated crake	Micropygia schomburgkii	98
Russet-crowned crake	Rufirallus viridis	99
Chestnut-headed crake	Rufirallus castaneiceps	100
Swinhoe's rail	Coturnicops exquisitus	101
Yellow rail	Coturnicops noveboracensis	102
Speckled rail	Coturnicops notatus	103
Yellow-breasted crake	Laterallus flaviventer	104
Black rail	Laterallus jamaicensis	105
Galapagos crake	Laterallus spilonota	106
Dot-winged crake	Laterallus spiloptera	107
Inaccessible Island rail	Laterallus rogersi	108
Ruddy crake	Laterallus ruber	109
Rufous-sided crake	Laterallus melanophaius	110
Rusty-flanked crake	Laterallus levraudi	111
Rufous-faced crake	Laterallus xenopterus	112
Red-and-white crake	Laterallus leucopyrrhus	113
Grey-breasted crake	Laterallus exilis	114
White-throated crake	Laterallus albigularis	115
Black-banded crake	Laterallus fasciatus	116
Ascension crake	Mundia elpenor (E)	117
St. Helena rail	Aphanocrex podarces (E)	118
Black crake	Zapornia flavirostra	119
Sakalava rail	Zapornia olivieri	120
Ruddy-breasted crake	Zapornia fusca	121
Band-bellied crake	Zapornia paykullii	122
Black-tailed crake	Zapornia bicolor	123
Brown crake	Zapornia akool	124
Baillon's crake	Zapornia pusilla	125
St. Helena crake	Zapornia astrictocarpus (E)	126
Little crake	Zapornia parva	127
Spotless crake	Zapornia tabuensis	128
Kosrae crake	Zapornia monasa (E)	129
Tahiti crake	Zapornia nigra (E)	130
Henderson crake	Zapornia atra	131
Hawaiian rail	Zapornia sandwichensis (E)	132
Laysan rail	Zapornia palmeri (E)	133
Slaty-legged crake	Rallina eurizonoides	134
Andaman crake	Rallina canningi	135
Red-legged crake	Rallina fasciata	136
Red-necked crake	Rallina tricolor	137
Blue-faced rail	Gymnocrex rosenbergii	138
Talaud rail	Gymnocrex talaudensis	139
Bare-eyed rail	Gymnocrex plumbeiventris	140
Nkulengu rail	Himantornis haematopus	141
New Guinea flightless rail	Megacrex inepta	142
White-browed crake	Poliolimnas cinereus	143
Striped crake	Aenigmatolimnas marginalis	144
Watercock	Gallicrex cinerea	145
White-breasted waterhen	Amaurornis phoenicurus	146
Plain bush-hen	Amaurornis olivacea	147
Talaud bush-hen	Amaurornis magnirostris	148
Isabelline bush-hen	Amaurornis isabellina	149
Pale-vented bush-hen	Amaurornis moluccana	150
Red rail	Aphanapteryx bonasia (E)	151
Rodrigues rail	Erythromachus leguati (E)	152