Biology:Rallina

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Short description: Genus of birds

Rallina
Red-necked Crake kuranda.jpg
Red-necked crake (Rallina tricolor)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Rallina
G.R. Gray, 1846
Type species
Rallus fasciatus[1]
Raffles, 1822
Synonyms

Tomirdus Mathews, 1912

Rallina is a genus of bird in the rail family, Rallidae. It contains four species found in forest and marshland in Asia and Australasia.[2] They are 18–34 cm long and mainly chestnut or brown, often with black and white markings.[3] They are four species that are now placed in the genus Rallicula that were previously included in the genus Rallina. In fact, some taxonomic authorities continue to place them there. A fifth species, the Great Nicobar crake was proposed but not accepted as a separate species.[4]

Species

The genus contains the following four species:[2]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Red-necked Crake kuranda.jpg Rallina tricolor Red-necked crake the Moluccas, Lesser Sundas, New Guinea lowlands and adjacent islands, and north-eastern Australia.
Andaman crake (cropped).jpg Rallina canningi Andaman crake Andaman Islands
Red-Legged Crake.jpg Rallina fasciata Red-legged crake north-eastern India, eastern Bangladesh,[2] Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Indonesia
Slaty legged crake.jpg Rallina eurizonoides Slaty-legged crake India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to the Philippines and Indonesia.


References

  1. "Rallidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=42. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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/. Retrieved 26 June 2019. 
  3. Taylor, Barry & Ber van Perlo (1998). Rails: A Guide to the Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World. Sussex: Pica Press. 
  4. kumar, S Rajesh. "An apparently new species of Rallina crake from Great Nicobar Island, India" (in en). BirdingASIA 17: 44-46. https://www.academia.edu/7836035. 

Wikidata ☰ Q979624 entry