Madagascan wood rail

The Madagascan wood rail (Mentocrex kioloides), also known as the kioloides rail, is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is endemic to forests, often in wet areas, in northern and eastern Madagascar.

Madagascan wood rail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Sarothruridae
Genus: Mentocrex
Species:
M. kioloides
Binomial name
Mentocrex kioloides
(Pucheran, 1845)
Synonyms

Canirallus kioloides

This species was formerly placed in the genus Canirallus together with Tsingy wood rail and the grey-throated rail. A molecular genetic study published in 2019 found that the grey-throated rail is not closely related to the wood rails. The wood rails were therefore moved to the resurrected genus Mentocrex.[2][3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Canirallus kioloides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Boast, A.P.; et al. (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. Retrieved 25 June 2019.


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