Aztec rail

Aztec rail
Conservation status
	; Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Rallus
Species:	R. tenuirostris
Binomial name
	Rallus tenuirostris; Ridgway, 1874

The Aztec rail, or Mexican rail, (Rallus tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is endemic to highland freshwater marshes in Mexico.[2] The species was formerly considered a subspecies of the King rail,[3] but further analyses have discovered it was more related to the Ridgeway's Rail.[2]

References

BirdLife International (2014). "Rallus tenuirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
"Aztec Rail - Introduction | Neotropical Birds Online". neotropical.birds.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
Maley, J.M. & Brumfield, R.T. (2013). "Mitochondrial and Next-Generation Sequence Data used to Infer Phylogenetic Relationships and Species Limits in the Clapper/King Rail Complex". The Condor. 115: 316–329. doi:10.1525/cond.2013.110138.

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[1] BirdLife International (2014). "Rallus tenuirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url

[:0-2] "Aztec Rail - Introduction | Neotropical Birds Online". neotropical.birds.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-26.

[3] Maley, J.M. & Brumfield, R.T. (2013). "Mitochondrial and Next-Generation Sequence Data used to Infer Phylogenetic Relationships and Species Limits in the Clapper/King Rail Complex". The Condor. 115: 316–329. doi:10.1525/cond.2013.110138.