Coturnicops

Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.

Coturnicops
Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Coturnicops
G.R. Gray, 1855

The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species.[1] The genus name is from the Latin coturnix "quail".[2]

Species

The genus contains the following three species:[3]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Swinhoe's railCoturnicops exquisitusManchuria and southeastern Siberia.
Yellow rail Coturnicops noveboracensisCanada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States
Speckled crakeCoturnicops notatusArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela
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References

  1. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 120.
  2. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Coturnicops". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.


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