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Yellow or Swinhoe's Rail

Coturnicops [noveboracensis or exquisitus] (= Coturnicops noveboracensis) (Gmelin, JF 1789)




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Classification
Order:
  Gruiformes
Family:
  Rallidae
Genus:
   Coturnicops
Scientific:
  Coturnicops noveboracensis


Original description

Citation:
  (Gmelin, JF 1789)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 13, vol. 1, part 2 1 pt2 p.701

Protonym:
  Fulica noveboracensis

Type locality:
  New York.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10286#page/202/mode/1up


Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  33CB031DFAC093EC

Avibase ID:
  avibase-33CB031D

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/33CB031D


Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 176259

Geographic range:

  • Coturnicops exquisitus: Siberia and northern Manchuria; winters to southern China and Ryukyu Islands (southern Japan)
  • Coturnicops noveboracensis noveboracensis: disjunct in marshes of Canada and northern USA; winters to southern USA
  • Coturnicops noveboracensis goldmani: known only from marshes near Río Lerma (central Mexico); possibly extinct (not reported since the early 1960s)
English:
Yellow or Swinhoe's Rail
French:
Râle jaune ou R. de Swinhoe


Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Yellow or Swinhoe's Rail ( Coturnicops [noveboracensis or exquisitus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Yellow or Swinhoe's Rail ( Coturnicops [noveboracensis or exquisitus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Yellow or Swinhoe's Rail ( Coturnicops [noveboracensis or exquisitus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Yellow or Swinhoe's Rail ( Coturnicops [noveboracensis or exquisitus])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Yellow or Swinhoe's Rail ( Coturnicops [noveboracensis or exquisitus])

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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English: Yellow or Swinhoe's Rail
French: Râle jaune, Râle jaune ou R. de Swinhoe
Scientific: Coturnicops [noveboracensis or exquisitus], Coturnicops noveboracensis, Coturnicops noveboracensis noveboracensis, Fulica noveboracensis

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