Aramides

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{{Automatic Taxobox

| name = Aramides

| image = Aramides cajaneaPCCA20051227-2034B.jpg

| image_caption = Grey-cowled wood rail, Aramides cajaneus

| taxon = Aramides

| authority = Pucheran, 1845

| type_species = Fulica cayennensis{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=42 |title= Rallidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-27}}

| type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1789

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Aramides is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.

It contains the following 8 species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flufftails/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=8 July 2019 }}

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Image	Common name	Scientific Name	Distribution
120px	Little wood rail	Aramides mangle	Brazil.
120px	Rufous-necked wood rail	Aramides axillaris	Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
120px	Grey-cowled wood rail	Aramides cajaneus	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
120px	Russet-naped wood rail	Aramides albiventris	southern Mexico to Costa Rica.
	Brown wood rail	Aramides wolfi	Colombia, Ecuador, and possibly Peru.
120px	Giant wood rail	Aramides ypecaha	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
120px	Slaty-breasted wood rail	Aramides saracura	Brazil and eastern Paraguay.
	Red-winged wood rail	Aramides calopterus	Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.

There is also a doubtful species:

• Red-throated wood rail, Aramides gutturalis - extinct (20th century?)