Mangrove rail
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| Species: | R. longirostris
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| Rallus longirostris Boddaert, 1783
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The mangrove rail (Rallus longirostris) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Central and South America. It was formerly considered conspecific with the clapper rail (Rallus crepitans).[2][3][4]
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests and coastal saline lagoons. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Subspecies
- Rallus longirostris phelpsi—Phelps's mangrove rail
- Rallus longirostris dillonripleyi
- Rallus longirostris longirostris, nominate
- Rallus longirostris margaritae
- Rallus longirostris pelodramus
- Rallus longirostris crassirostris
- Rallus longirostris cypereti—coast of Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Gruitag.org: Gruiformes Taxon Advisory Group Regional Collection Plan (First edition, 2009-2012).
- Rallus longirostris berryorum—Fonseca mangrove rail [5]
References
- ^ Template:IUCN
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- ^ Maley JM, Brumfield RT. 2013. Mitochondrial and next-generation sequence data used to infer phylogenetic relationships and species limits in the Clapper/King Rail (Rallus longirostris and elegans) complex. Condor. 115:316–329.
- ^ Garrigues, Richard; Garrigues, Leonardo (2016). "First documentation of mangrove rail Rallus longirostris breeding in Costa Rica". Cotinga. 38: 90–91.
- ^ Maley, James; McCormack, John; Tsai, Whitney; Schwab, Emiko; Van Dort, John; Juárez, Roselvy; Carling, Matthew (2016). "Fonseca Mangrove Rail: a news subspecies from Honduras". Western Birds. 47 (4): 1–14.
- Birds of Venezuela by Hilty, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
- ffrench, Richard (1991). A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd ed.). Comstock Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2.
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