Rufirallus

The genus Rufirallus was introduced in 1856 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. He listed three species in the genus but did not specify which should be considered as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1856 | title=Excusion dans les divers Musées d'Allemagne, de Hollande et de Belgique, et tableaux paralléliques de l'ordre des échassiers (suite)| language=French | journal=Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences | volume=43 | pages=593–601 [599] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1211135 }} Subsequently the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin designated P. cayanensis (misspelled cayennensis) as the type.{{ cite journal | last1=Sclater | first1=P.L. | author1-link=Philip Sclater | last2=Salvin | first2=Osbert | author2-link=Osbert Salvin | year=1868 | title=Synopsis of the American rails (Rallidae) | journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London | pages=442–470 [450] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28627512 }} This specific name had been introduced by Pieter Boddaert in 1783{{cite book | last=Boddaert | first=Pieter | author-link=Pieter Boddaert | year=1783 | title=Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés | publisher= | location=Utrecht | page=22, Number 368 | url=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822660 | language=French }} and is a junior synonym of Rallus viridis which had been introduced some years earlier in 1776 by the German zoologist Philipp Statius Müller.{{ cite book | last=Statius Müller | first=Philipp Ludwig | author-link=Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller | year=1776 | title=Des Ritters Carl von Linné Königlich Schwedischen Lelbarztes uc. uc. vollständigen Natursystems Supplements und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs mit einer ausführlichen Erklärung ausgefertiget | location=Nürnberg | publisher=Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe | language=German | page=120 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52710073 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Dickinson | editor1-first=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor2-last=Remsen | editor2-first=J.V. Jr. | editor2-link=James Van Remsen Jr. | year=2013 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume=1: Non-passerines | edition=4th | location=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-0-8 | page=151 | url=https://archive.org/details/howardmoorecompl0001howa/page/151/mode/1up | url-access=registration }} The genus name combines the Latin rufus meaning "rufous" with the genus Rallus that had been introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the rails.{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Rufirallus | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Rufirallus | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=28 February 2025 }}

The genus formerly included only two species. The results of a 2023 multilocus molecular phylogentic study of the subfamily Laterallini by Emiliano Depino and collaborators led to a revision of the taxonomy.{{Cite journal | last1=Depino | first1=E.A. | last2=Pérez-Emán | first2=J.L. | last3=Bonaccorso | first3=E. | last4=Areta | first4=J.I. | date=2023 | title=Evolutionary history of New World crakes (Aves: Rallidae) with emphasis on the tribe Laterallini | journal=Zoologica Scripta | volume=52 | issue=4 | doi=10.1111/zsc.12595}} The genus now contains the following five species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=February 2025 | title=Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin | work=IOC World Bird List Version 15.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/bow/flufftails/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=1 March 2025}}

• Rufous-faced crake, Rufirallus xenopterus (formerly in Laterallus)
• Red-and-white crake, Rufirallus leucopyrrhus (formerly in Laterallus)
• Black-banded crake, Rufirallus fasciatus (formerly in Laterallus)
• Ocellated crake, Rufirallus schomburgkii (formerly in monotypic Micropygia)
• Russet-crowned crake, Rufirallus viridis

The genus previous included the chestnut-headed crake but this species is now placed in its own monotypic genus Anurolimnas.

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Category:Birds of the Amazon rainforest

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