Genus of birds
Laterallus genus of birds in the rail family Rallidae. These small, relatively short-billed terrestrial rails are found among dense vegetation near water in the Neotropics , although a single species, the black rail, also occurs in the United States .
The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the rufous-sided crake (Laterallus melanophaius ) as the type species .[ 2] portmanteau of Rallus lateralis , a synonym of the binomial name for the rufous-sided crake.[ 3] yellow-breasted crake , the dot-winged crake , and the flightless Inaccessible Island rail should be moved to this genus.[ 4]
Species
The genus contains 13 species:[ 5]
Black-banded crake , Laterallus fasciatus Rufous-sided crake , Laterallus melanophaius Rusty-flanked crake , Laterallus levraudi Ruddy crake , Laterallus ruber White-throated crake , Laterallus albigularis Grey-breasted crake , Laterallus exilis Yellow-breasted crake , Laterallus flaviventer Black rail , Laterallus jamaicensis
Galapagos crake , Laterallus spilonota Dot-winged crake , Laterallus spiloptera Inaccessible Island rail , Laterallus rogersi Red-and-white crake , Laterallus leucopyrrhus Rufous-faced crake , Laterallus xenopterus
References
^ "Rallidae" . aviansystematics.org . The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27 .^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Laterallus " . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology . Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019 . ^ Stervander, M.; Ryan, P.G.; Melo, M.; Hansson, B. (2019). "The origin of the world's smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 130 : 92–98. Bibcode :2019MolPE.130...92S . doi :10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.007 . PMID 30321695 . S2CID 53024581 . ^ 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 .
Further reading
Taylor, B., & van Perlo, B. (1998). Rails – A Guide to the Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World. ISBN 1-873403-59-3
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