Porzana
Rails
Porzana is a genus of birds in the crake or rail family, Rallidae. 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
- Porzana parva Scopoli, 1769 - Little Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa)
- Porzana pusilla Pallas, 1776 - Baillon's Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in east Africa and South Asia)
- Porzana porzana Linnaeus, 1766 - Spotted Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa and India)
- Porzana fluminea Gould, 1843 - Australian Spotted Crake
- Porzana carolina Linnaeus, 1758 - Sora (North America)
- Porzana spiloptera Durnford, 1877 - Dot-winged Crake (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)
- Porzana albicollis Vieillot, 1819 - Ash-throated Crake (South America)
- Porzana fusca Linnaeus, 1766 - Ruddy-breasted Crake (Asia)
- Porzana paykullii Ljungh, 1813 - Band-bellied Crake (East Asia)
- Porzana tabuensis Gmelin, 1789 - Spotless Crake (Oceania)
- Porzana atra North, 1980 - Henderson Crake (Henderson Island)
- Porzana flaviventer Boddaert, 1783 - Yellow-breasted Crake (Central and South America, Caribbean)
- Porzana cinerea Vieillot, 1819 - White-browed Crake (East Asia, Oceania)
Extinct species
- Porzana palmeri Frohawk, 1892 - Laysan Rail, (1944)
- Porzana sandwichensis Gmelin, 1789 - Hawaiian Rail, (c.1890)
- Porzana monasa - Kosrae Island Crake, (c. mid-late 19th century)
- Porzana nigra J. F. Miller, 1784 - Miller's Rail, (18th century) only known by two paintings
- Porzana astrictocarpus Olson, 1973 - Saint Helena Crake, (early 16th century)
- Porzana ralphorum Olson, 1973 - Great Oʻahu Crake, (prehistoric)
- Porzana severnsi Olson, 1973 - Great Maui Crake (prehistoric)
- Porzana rua - Mangaia Crake (prehistoric)
- Porzana menehune - Liliput Crake (prehistoric)
- Porzana ziegleri - Small Oʻahu Crake (prehistoric)
- Porzana keplerorum - Small Maui Crake (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)
- Easter Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Great Big Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Great Kauaʻi 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 Kauaʻi Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Medium Maui Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Small Big Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
The Middle Pleistocene fossil described as Porzana auffenbergi is now placed in Rallus.
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