Hypotaenidia

Hypotaenidia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae. The genus is considered separate by the IOC and IUCN, while The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World / eBird consider the species to be part of Gallirallus.

Hypotaenidia
Okinawa rail, Hypotaenidia okinawae
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Hypotaenidia
Reichenbach, 1853
Species

See text

Species

It contains the following species:[1]

Extant
ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Okinawa railHypotaenidia okinawaeOkinawa, Japan
Barred railHypotaenidia torquatathe Philippines, Sulawesi (Indonesia) and Salawati (western New Guinea)
Buff-banded railHypotaenidia philippensisAustralasia and the southwestern Pacific region, including the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand
Guam railHypotaenidia owstoniGuam
Pink-legged railHypotaenidia insignisNew Britain
Roviana railHypotaenidia rovianaeWestern Province (the Solomon Islands)
Woodford's railHypotaenidia woodfordithe Solomon Islands
Lord Howe woodhenHypotaenidia sylvestrisLord Howe Island

Extinct
ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
†Bar-winged railHypotaenidia poecilopteraFiji (Viti Levu)
†Dieffenbach's railHypotaenidia dieffenbachiithe Chatham Islands
†Tahiti railHypotaenidia pacificaTahiti
†Vava'u railHypotaenidia vavauensisVava'u (Vuna)
†Wake Island railHypotaenidia wakensisWake Island

References
  1. 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.


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