Biology:Grey-throated rail

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Short description: Species of bird

Grey-throated rail
Canirallus oculeus Museum de Genève.JPG
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Canirallus
Bonaparte, 1856
Species:
C. oculeus
Binomial name
Canirallus oculeus
(Hartlaub, 1855)

The grey-throated rail (Canirallus oculeus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae, the only member of the genus Canirallus. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

The genus Canirallus was formerly placed in the family Sarothruridae. The genus was moved to Rallidae when a molecular genetic study published in 2019 found that the grey-throated rail was more closely related to Rallidae than it was to Sarothruridae.[2][3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Canirallus oculeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22692260A93344888. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22692260A93344888.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22692260/93344888. Retrieved 16 November 2021. 
  2. Boast, A.P. (2019). "Mitochondrial genomes from New Zealand's extinct adzebills (Aves: Aptornithidae: Aptornis) support a sister-taxon relationship with the Afro-Madagascan Sarothruridae". Diversity 11 (24): 1–21. doi:10.3390/d11020024. 
  3. 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 ☰ Q1268969 entry