Rufous-faced Crake

Rufous-faced Crake / Laterallus xenopterus

Rufous-faced Crake

Here the details of the Rufous-faced Crake named bird below:

SCI Name:  Laterallus xenopterus
Protonym:  Laterallus xenopterus Auk 51 p.365
Taxonomy:  Gruiformes / Rallidae /
Taxonomy Code:  rufcra1
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Publish Year:  1934
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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.