Biology:Hypotaenidia

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Short description: Genus of birds

Hypotaenidia
Okinawa Rail.jpg
Okinawa rail, Hypotaenidia okinawae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Hypotaenidia
Reichenbach, 1853
Type species
Rallus pectoralis[1]
Reichenbach, 1853
Species

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Hypotaenidia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae. The genus is considered separate by the IOC and IUCN, while The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World / eBird consider the species to be part of Gallirallus.

Species

It contains the following species:[2]

Extant

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Okinawa Rail.jpg Okinawa rail Hypotaenidia okinawae Okinawa, Japan
Gallirallus torquatus (cropped).JPG Barred rail Hypotaenidia torquata the Philippines, Sulawesi (Indonesia) and Salawati (western New Guinea)
Buff-banded Rail LEI Jan08.jpg Buff-banded rail Hypotaenidia philippensis Australasia and the southwestern Pacific region, including the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand
GuamRail02.jpg Guam rail Hypotaenidia owstoni Guam
Pink-legged rail Hypotaenidia insignis New Britain
Roviana rail Hypotaenidia rovianae Western Province (the Solomon Islands)
Woodford's rail Hypotaenidia woodfordi the Solomon Islands
Lord Howe Woodhen 3.jpg Lord Howe woodhen Hypotaenidia sylvestris Lord Howe Island

Extinct

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Nesoclopeus.poecilopterus.ofgh.jpg Bar-winged rail Hypotaenidia poeciloptera Fiji (Viti Levu)
CabalusDieffenbachiiKeulemans.jpg Dieffenbach's rail Hypotaenidia dieffenbachii the Chatham Islands
Gallirallus.pacificus.jpg Tahiti rail Hypotaenidia pacifica Tahiti
Vava'u rail Hypotaenidia vavauensis Vava'u (Vuna)
Gallirallus wakensis (cropped).jpg Wake Island rail Hypotaenidia wakensis Wake Island

References

  1. "Rallidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=42. 
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 10.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flufftails/. Retrieved 25 July 2020. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q27460259 entry