Rufous-faced Crake
Rufous-faced Crake
Here the details of the Rufous-faced Crake named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Laterallus xenopterus Auk 51 p.365
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Laterallus
Taxonomy Code: rufcra1
Type Locality:
Author: Conover
Publish Year: 1934
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
LATERALLUS
(Rallidae; Ϯ Rufous-sided Crake L. melanophaius) Portmanteau of specific combination Rallus lateralis (Lichtenstein, 1823) (= syn. Laterallus melanophaius) (see Crybastus); "d. Laterallus, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854 (nom. nud.)); "1997. LATERALLUS, Pr. B. 1854. (Rallus melanophaia, Vieill.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Laterallus "Pr. B." G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 120. Type, by monotypy, Rallus melanophaius Vieillot." (Peters 1934, II, 189).
Var. Lateiallus.
Synon. Corethura, Creciscus, Crybastus, Donacophilus, Laterirallus, Limnocrex, Thryocrex.
xenopterum / xenopterus
Gr. ξενος xenos different; -πτερος -pteros -winged < πτερον pteron wing.
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)