Blackish Rail
Blackish Rail
Here the details of the Blackish Rail named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Rallus nigricans Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 28 p.560
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Pardirallus
Taxonomy Code: blarai1
Type Locality: Paraguay, based on Azara, no. 371.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1819
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PARDIRALLUS
(Rallidae; Ϯ Spotted Rail P. maculatus) L. pardus, pardi leopard < Gr. παρδος pardos leopard; genus Rallus Linnaeus, 1758, rail; "110. Pardirallus, Bp. 327. variegatus, Gm. (maculatus, Bodd. nivosus, Sw.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Pardirallus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, 1856, p. 599. Type, by monotypy, Rallus variegatus Gmelin = Rallus maculatus Boddaert." (Peters 1934, II, 169).
Synon. Limnopardalus, Ortygonax.
nigricans
L. nigricans, nigricantis blackish, swarthy < nigrare to be black < niger black.
● ex “Suirirí chorrendo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 182 (syn. Hymenops perspicillata).
● ex “Ypacahá obscuro” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 371 (Pardirallus).
● ex “Brunoir” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 106, fig. 1 (Pycnonotus).
● ex “Tachurí obscurito menor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 167 (Ridgwayornis).
SUBSPECIES
Blackish Rail (caucae)
SCI Name: Pardirallus nigricans caucae
caucae
Cauca, Colombia.
Blackish Rail (nigricans)
SCI Name: Pardirallus nigricans nigricans
nigricans
L. nigricans, nigricantis blackish, swarthy < nigrare to be black < niger black.
● ex “Suirirí chorrendo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 182 (syn. Hymenops perspicillata).
● ex “Ypacahá obscuro” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 371 (Pardirallus).
● ex “Brunoir” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 106, fig. 1 (Pycnonotus).
● ex “Tachurí obscurito menor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 167 (Ridgwayornis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)