Mangrove rail

Mangrove rail
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Rallus
Species: R. longirostris
Binomial name
Rallus longirostris
Boddaert, 1783

The mangrove rail (Rallus longirostris) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Central and South America. It was formerly considered conspecific with the clapper rail (Rallus crepitans).[2][3][4]

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests and coastal saline lagoons. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Subspecies

  • Rallus longirostris phelpsi—Phelps's mangrove rail
  • Rallus longirostris dillonripleyi
  • Rallus longirostris longirostris, nominate
  • Rallus longirostris margaritae
  • Rallus longirostris pelodramus
  • Rallus longirostris crassirostris
  • Rallus longirostris cypereti—coast of Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Gruitag.org: Gruiformes Taxon Advisory Group Regional Collection Plan (First edition, 2009-2012).
  • Rallus longirostris berryorum—Fonseca mangrove rail [5]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2014). "Rallus longirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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  3. ↑ Maley JM, Brumfield RT. 2013. Mitochondrial and next-generation sequence data used to infer phylogenetic relationships and species limits in the Clapper/King Rail (Rallus longirostris and elegans) complex. Condor. 115:316–329.
  4. ↑ Garrigues, Richard; Garrigues, Leonardo (2016). "First documentation of mangrove rail Rallus longirostris breeding in Costa Rica". Cotinga. 38: 90–91.
  5. ↑ Maley, James; McCormack, John; Tsai, Whitney; Schwab, Emiko; Van Dort, John; Juárez, Roselvy; Carling, Matthew (2016). "Fonseca Mangrove Rail: a news subspecies from Honduras". Western Birds. 47 (4): 1–14.
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  • ffrench, Richard (1991). A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd ed.). Comstock Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2.


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