Coturnicops
| Coturnicops | |
|---|---|
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| Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Coturnicops G.R. Gray, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Fulica noveboracensis[1] Gmelin, 1789
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Coturnicops is a genus of
rail
family.
The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species.[2] The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance".[3]
Species
The genus contains the following three species:[4]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swinhoe's rail | Coturnicops exquisitus | Manchuria and southeastern Siberia. | |
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Yellow rail | Coturnicops noveboracensis | Canada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States |
Speckled crake |
Coturnicops notatus | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela |
References
- ^ "Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 120.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ 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.