Coturnicops

Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.

Coturnicops
Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Coturnicops
G.R. Gray, 1855

The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species.[1] The genus name is from the Latin coturnix "quail".[2]

Species

The genus contains the following three species:[3]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Swinhoe's railCoturnicops exquisitusManchuria and southeastern Siberia.
Yellow rail Coturnicops noveboracensisCanada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States
Speckled crakeCoturnicops notatusArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela

References

  1. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 120.
  2. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Coturnicops". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  3. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.


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