Biology:Coturnicops

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Short description: Genus of birds

Coturnicops
Coturnicops noveboracensisAAP026CB.jpg
Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Scientific classification e
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

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
Swinhoe's rail Coturnicops exquisitus Manchuria and southeastern Siberia.
Yellow Rail.jpg 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

Wikidata ☰ Q869404 entry