Porzana

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Spotted Crake

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Porzana Vieillot, 1816

Species

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Porzana is a genus of crakes. It has a global distribution, contains 13 living species, and 4-5 recently extinct ones. In addition, a large number of prehistorically extinct species known only from fossil or subfossil remains have been discovered.

Living species

Little Crake, Porzana parva
Baillon's Crake, Porzana pusilla
Spotted Crake, Porzana porzana
Australian Spotted Crake, Porzana fluminea
Sora, Porzana carolina
Dot-winged Crake, Porzana spiloptera
Ash-throated Crake, Porzana albicollis
Ruddy-breasted Crake, Porzana fusca
Band-bellied Crake, Porzana paykullii
Spotless Crake, Porzana tabuensis
Henderson Island Crake, Porzana atra
Yellow-breasted Crake, Porzana flaviventer
White-browed Crake, Porzana cinerea

Extinct species

Laysan Rail, Porzana palmeri (1944)
Hawaiian Rail, Porzana sandwichensis (c.1890)
Kosrae Island Crake, Porzana monasa (c. mid-late 19th century)
Miller's Crake, Porzana nigra (c.1800, doubtful species)
Saint Helena Crake, Porzana astrictocarpus (early 16th century)
Great O‘ahu Crake, Porzana ralphorum (prehistoric)
Great Maui Crake, Porzana severnsi (prehistoric)
Mangaia Crake, Porzana rua (prehistoric)
Liliput Crake, Porzana menehune (prehistoric)
Small O‘ahu Crake, Porzana ziegleri (prehistoric)
Small Maui Crake, Porzana keplerorum (prehistoric)
Easter Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
Great Big Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
Great Kaua‘i Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
Huahine Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
Mangaia Crake #2, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
Marquesas Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
Marianas Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric) - possibly 2 species
Medium Kaua‘i Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
Medium Maui Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
Small Big Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
[[Porzana estramosi]] (Sajóvölgyi Middle? - Late Miocene of Hungary)
[[Porzana piercei]] (Shore Hills Late Pleistocene of Bermuda, W Atlantic)
[[Porzana cf. flaviventer]] (Bermuda, West Atlantic)

The Middle Pleistocene fossil described as Porzana auffenbergi is now placed in Rallus.

[edit] References

Taylor, P. Barry & van Perlo, Ber (1998): Rails : a guide to the rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots of the world. Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0-300-07758-0.