Zapornia

Zapornia
	Black crake, Zapornia flavirostra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Zapornia; Leach, 1816
Type species
	Zapornia minuta[1] = Rallus parvus; Leach, 1816
Species
	see text

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.
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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

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[HM4-1] "Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.

[2] 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.

[3] Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 413. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[ioc-4] 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.

[5] 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)