Biology:Coturnicops
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Coturnicops | |
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| Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 bird in the 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 |
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| 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". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=42.
- ↑ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 120. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136759.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n120/mode/1up.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flufftails/.
Wikidata ☰ Q869404 entry
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