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Genus of birds
Zapornia is a genus of birds in the rail family
Rallidae .
Taxonomy
The genus Zapornia was introduced in 1816 by the English zoologist
William Elford Leach in a catalogue of animals in the
British Museum . He included a single species, the
little crake which is therefore the
type species .
[2] The genus name is an anagram of the genus
Porzana that was introduced by the French ornithologist
Louis-Pierre Vieillot .
[3] The species now placed in this genus were formerly assigned to Porzana and
Amaurornis .
[4]
[5]
The genus contains the following species:
[4]
Black crake , Zapornia flavirostra (formerly placed in Amaurornis )
Sakalava rail , Zapornia olivieri (formerly placed in Amaurornis )
Ruddy-breasted crake , Zapornia fusca (formerly placed in Porzana )
Band-bellied crake , Zapornia paykullii (formerly placed in Porzana )
Black-tailed crake , Zapornia bicolor (formerly placed in Porzana )
Brown crake , Zapornia akool (formerly placed in Porzana )
Baillon's crake , Zapornia pusilla (formerly placed in Porzana )
†
St. Helena crake , Zapornia astrictocarpus (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana )
Little crake , Zapornia parva (formerly placed in Porzana )
Spotless crake , Zapornia tabuensis (formerly placed in Porzana )
†
Kosrae crake , Zapornia monasa (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana )
†
Tahiti crake , Zapornia nigra (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana )
Henderson crake , Zapornia atra (formerly placed in Porzana )
†
Hawaiian rail , Zapornia sandwichensis (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana )
†
Laysan rail , Zapornia palmeri (extinct) (formerly placed in Porzana )
References
^
"Rallidae" . aviansystematics.org . The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27 .
^
Leach, William Elford (1816).
Systematic Catalogue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that are Preserved in the British Museum: with Their Localities and Authorities . London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor. p. 34.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010).
The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p. 413.
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4 .
^
a
b
Gill, Frank ; Donsker, David, eds. (2019).
"Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin" . World Bird List Version 10.2 . International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 July 2020 .
^
Dickinson, E.C. ;
Remsen, J.V. Jr. , eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World . Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 158.
ISBN
978-0-9568611-0-8 .