Porzana
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Porzana is a genus of crakes. It has a global distribution, contains 13 living species, and 4-5 recently extinct ones. In addition, a large number of prehistorically extinct species known only from fossil or subfossil remains have been discovered.
Living species
- Little Crake, Porzana parva
- Baillon's Crake, Porzana pusilla
- Spotted Crake, Porzana porzana
- Australian Crake, Porzana fluminea
- Sora, Porzana carolina
- Dot-winged Crake, Porzana spiloptera
- Ash-throated Crake, Porzana albicollis
- Ruddy-breasted Crake, Porzana fusca
- Band-bellied Crake, Porzana paykullii
- Spotless Crake, Porzana tabuensis
- Henderson Island Crake, Porzana atra
- Yellow-breasted Crake, Porzana flaviventer
- White-browed Crake, Porzana cinerea
Extinct species
- Laysan Rail, Porzana palmeri (1944)
- Hawaiian Rail, Porzana sandwichensis (c.1890)
- Kosrae Island Crake, Porzana monasa (c. mid-late 19th century)
- Miller's Crake, Porzana nigra (c.1800, doubtful species)
- Saint Helena Crake, Porzana astrictocarpus (early 16th century)
- Great O‘ahu Crake, Porzana ralphorum (prehistoric)
- Great Maui Grake, Porzana severnsi (prehistoric)
- Mangaia Crake, Porzana rua (prehistoric)
- Liliput Crake, Porzana menehune (prehistoric)
- Small O‘ahu Crake, Porzana ziegleri (prehistoric)
- Small Maui Crake, Porzana keplerorum (prehistoric)
- Easter Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Great Big Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Great Kaua‘i Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Huahine Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Mangaia Crake #2, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Marquesas Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Marianas Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric) - possibly 2 species
- Medium Kaua‘i Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Medium Maui Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Small Big Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Porzana estramosi (Sajóvölgyi Middle? - Late Miocene of Hungary)
- Porzana piercei (Shore Hills Late Pleistocene of Bermuda, W Atlantic)
- Porzana cf. flaviventer (Bermuda, West Atlantic)
The Middle Pleistocene fossil described as Porzana auffenbergi is now placed in Rallus.
[edit] Reference
- Taylor, P. Barry & van Perlo, Ber (1998): Rails : a guide to the rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots of the world. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0300077580
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