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List of rail species

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The avian family Rallidae comprise the rails, crakes, and coots. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 153 species distributed among 43 genera, 24 of which have only one species. Twenty-one of the species in the list have gone extinct since A.D. 1500; they are marked (E).[1]

This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.

List

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Common name Binomial name IOC sequence
Grey-throated rail Canirallus oculeus (Hartlaub, 1855) 1
Chestnut-headed crake Anurolimnas castaneiceps (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1869) 2
Spotted rail Pardirallus maculatus (Boddaert, 1783) 3
Blackish rail Pardirallus nigricans (Vieillot, 1819) 4
Plumbeous rail Pardirallus sanguinolentus (Swainson, 1838) 5
Ash-throated crake Mustelirallus albicollis (Vieillot, 1819) 6
Zapata rail Mustelirallus cerverai (Barbour & Peters, JL, 1927) 7
Colombian crake Mustelirallus colombianus (Bangs, 1898) 8
Paint-billed crake Mustelirallus erythrops (Sclater, PL, 1867) 9
Uniform crake Amaurolimnas concolor (Gosse, 1847) 10
Rufous-necked wood rail Aramides axillaris Lawrence, 1863 11
Little wood rail Aramides mangle (Spix, 1825) 12
Russet-naped wood rail Aramides albiventris Lawrence, 1868 13
Grey-cowled wood rail Aramides cajaneus (Müller, PLS, 1776) 14
Brown wood rail Aramides wolfi Berlepsch & Taczanowski, 1884 15
Giant wood rail Aramides ypecaha (Vieillot, 1819) 16
Red-winged wood rail Aramides calopterus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1878 17
Slaty-breasted wood rail Aramides saracura (Spix, 1825) 18
Ridgway's rail Rallus obsoletus Ridgway, 1874 19
Clapper rail Rallus crepitans Gmelin, JF, 1789 20
Aztec rail Rallus tenuirostris Ridgway, 1874 21
Mangrove rail Rallus longirostris Boddaert, 1783 22
King rail Rallus elegans Audubon, 1834 23
Plain-flanked rail Rallus wetmorei Zimmer, JT & Phelps, WH, 1944 24
Virginia rail Rallus limicola Vieillot, 1819 25
Bogota rail Rallus semiplumbeus Sclater, PL, 1856 26
Ecuadorian rail Rallus aequatorialis Sharpe, 1894 27
Austral rail Rallus antarcticus King, PP, 1828 28
Water rail Rallus aquaticus Linnaeus, 1758 29
Brown-cheeked rail Rallus indicus Blyth, 1849 30
African rail Rallus caerulescens Gmelin, JF, 1789 31
Madagascar rail Rallus madagascariensis Verreaux, J, 1833 32
African crake Crecopsis egregia (Peters, W, 1854) 33
Rouget's rail Rougetius rougetii (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) 34
White-throated rail Dryolimnas cuvieri (Pucheran, 1845) 35
Reunion rail Dryolimnas augusti Mourer-Chauviré, Bour, Ribes & Moutou, 1999 (E) 36
Corn crake Crex crex (Linnaeus, 1758) 37
Snoring rail Aramidopsis plateni (Blasius, W, 1886) 38
Slaty-breasted rail Lewinia striata (Linnaeus, 1766) 39
Brown-banded rail Lewinia mirifica (Parkes & Amadon, 1959) 40
Lewin's rail Lewinia pectoralis (Temminck, 1831) 41
Auckland rail Lewinia muelleri (Rothschild, 1893) 42
Hawkins's rail Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi (Forbes, HO, 1892) (E) 43
Calayan rail Aptenorallus calayanensis (Allen, D, Oliveros, Española, Broad & Gonzalez, 2004) 44
Invisible rail Habroptila wallacii Gray, GR, 1861 45
Weka Gallirallus australis (Sparrman, 1786) 46
Chestnut rail Eulabeornis castaneoventris Gould, 1844 47
New Caledonian rail Cabalus lafresnayanus (Verreaux, J & des Murs, 1860) 48
Chatham Islands rail Cabalus modestus (Hutton, FW, 1872) (E) 49
Okinawa rail Hypotaenidia okinawae (Yamashina & Mano, 1981) 50
Barred rail Hypotaenidia torquata (Linnaeus, 1766) 51
Buff-banded rail Hypotaenidia philippensis (Linnaeus, 1766) 52
Guam rail Hypotaenidia owstoni Rothschild, 1895 53
Pink-legged rail Hypotaenidia insignis (Sclater, PL, 1880) 54
Roviana rail Hypotaenidia rovianae (Diamond, 1991) 55
Woodford's rail Hypotaenidia woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1889) 56
Bar-winged rail Hypotaenidia poeciloptera (Hartlaub, 1866) (E) 57
Lord Howe woodhen Hypotaenidia sylvestris (Sclater, PL, 1870) 58
Dieffenbach's rail Hypotaenidia dieffenbachii (Gray, GR, 1843) (E) 59
Tahiti rail Hypotaenidia pacifica (Gmelin, JF, 1789) (E) 60
Wake Island rail Hypotaenidia wakensis Rothschild, 1903 (E) 61
Spot-flanked gallinule Porphyriops melanops (Vieillot, 1819) 62
Sora Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758) 63
Spotted crake Porzana porzana (Linnaeus, 1766) 64
Australian crake Porzana fluminea Gould, 1843 65
Black-tailed nativehen Tribonyx ventralis (Gould, 1837) 66
Tasmanian nativehen Tribonyx mortierii Du Bus de Gisignies, 1840 67
Lesser moorhen Paragallinula angulata (Sundevall, 1850) 68
Dusky moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa Gould, 1846 69
Common gallinule Gallinula galeata (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1818) 70
Common moorhen Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) 71
Tristan moorhen Gallinula nesiotis Sclater, PL, 1861 (E) 72
Gough moorhen Gallinula comeri (Allen, JA, 1892) 73
Makira woodhen Gallinula silvestris (Mayr, 1933) 74
Samoan woodhen Gallinula pacifica (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1871) (E) 75
Red-fronted coot Fulica rufifrons Philippi & Landbeck, 1861 76
Horned coot Fulica cornuta Bonaparte, 1853 77
Giant coot Fulica gigantea Eydoux & Souleyet, 1841 78
Red-gartered coot Fulica armillata Vieillot, 1817 79
Eurasian coot Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758 80
Red-knobbed coot Fulica cristata Gmelin, JF, 1789 81
Mascarene coot Fulica newtonii Milne-Edwards, 1867 (E) 82
Hawaiian coot Fulica alai Peale, 1849 83
American coot Fulica americana Gmelin, JF, 1789 84
Andean coot Fulica ardesiaca Tschudi, 1843 85
White-winged coot Fulica leucoptera Vieillot, 1817 86
Allen's gallinule Porphyrio alleni Thomson, 1842 87
Purple gallinule Porphyrio martinica (Linnaeus, 1766) 88
Azure gallinule Porphyrio flavirostris (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 89
Western swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio (Linnaeus, 1758) 90
African swamphen Porphyrio madagascariensis (Latham, 1801) 91
Grey-headed swamphen Porphyrio poliocephalus (Latham, 1801) 92
Black-backed swamphen Porphyrio indicus Horsfield, 1821 93
Philippine swamphen Porphyrio pulverulentus Temminck, 1826 94
Australasian swamphen Porphyrio melanotus Temminck, 1820 95
White swamphen Porphyrio albus (Shaw, 1790) (E) 96
Marquesan swamphen Porphyrio paepae Steadman, 1988 (E) 97
North Island takahe Porphyrio mantelli (Owen, 1848) (E) 98
South Island takahe Porphyrio hochstetteri (Meyer, AB, 1883) 99
Rufous-faced crake Rufirallus xenopterus Conover, 1934 100
Red-and-white crake Rufirallus leucopyrrhus (Vieillot, 1819) 101
Black-banded crake Rufirallus fasciatus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868) 102
Ocellated crake Rufirallus schomburgkii (Schomburgk, 1848) 103
Russet-crowned crake Rufirallus viridis (Müller, PLS, 1776) 104
Swinhoe's rail Coturnicops exquisitus (Swinhoe, 1873) 105
Yellow rail Coturnicops noveboracensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 106
Speckled rail Laterallus notatus (Gould, 1841) 107
Dot-winged crake Laterallus spiloptera (Durnford, 1877) 108
Inaccessible Island rail Laterallus rogersi (Lowe, 1923) 109
Black rail Laterallus jamaicensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 110
Galapagos crake Laterallus spilonota (Gould, 1841) 111
Yellow-breasted crake Laterallus flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783) 112
Grey-breasted crake Laterallus exilis (Temminck, 1831) 113
White-throated crake Laterallus albigularis (Lawrence, 1861) 114
Ruddy crake Laterallus ruber (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1860) 115
Rusty-flanked crake Laterallus levraudi (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1869) 116
Rufous-sided crake Laterallus melanophaius (Vieillot, 1819) 117
Ascension crake Mundia elpenor (Olson, 1973) (E) 118
St. Helena rail Aphanocrex podarces Wetmore, 1963 (E) 119
Black crake Zapornia flavirostra (Swainson, 1837) 120
Sakalava rail Zapornia olivieri (Grandidier, G & Berlioz, 1929) 121
Ruddy-breasted crake Zapornia fusca (Linnaeus, 1766) 122
Band-bellied crake Zapornia paykullii (Ljungh, 1813) 123
Black-tailed crake Zapornia bicolor (Walden, 1872) 124
Brown crake Zapornia akool (Sykes, 1832) 125
Baillon's crake Zapornia pusilla (Pallas, 1776) 126
St. Helena crake Zapornia astrictocarpus (Olson, 1973) (E) 127
Little crake Zapornia parva (Scopoli, 1769) 128
Spotless crake Zapornia tabuensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 129
Kosrae crake Zapornia monasa (Kittlitz, 1858) (E) 130
Tahiti crake Zapornia nigra (Miller, JF, 1784) (E) 131
Henderson crake Zapornia atra (North, 1908) 132
Hawaiian rail Zapornia sandwichensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) (E) 133
Laysan rail Zapornia palmeri (Frohawk, 1892) (E) 134
Slaty-legged crake Rallina eurizonoides (Lafresnaye, 1845) 135
Andaman crake Rallina canningi (Blyth, 1863) 136
Red-legged crake Rallina fasciata (Raffles, 1822) 137
Red-necked crake Rallina tricolor Gray, GR, 1858 138
Blue-faced rail Gymnocrex rosenbergii (Schlegel, 1866) 139
Talaud rail Gymnocrex talaudensis Lambert, 1998 140
Bare-eyed rail Gymnocrex plumbeiventris (Gray, GR, 1862) 141
Nkulengu rail Himantornis haematopus Hartlaub, 1855 142
New Guinea flightless rail Megacrex inepta D'Albertis & Salvadori, 1879 143
White-browed crake Poliolimnas cinereus (Vieillot, 1819) 144
Striped crake Aenigmatolimnas marginalis (Hartlaub, 1857) 145
Watercock Gallicrex cinerea (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 146
White-breasted waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus (Pennant, 1769) 147
Plain bush-hen Amaurornis olivacea (Meyen, 1834) 148
Talaud bush-hen Amaurornis magnirostris Lambert, 1998 149
Isabelline bush-hen Amaurornis isabellina (Schlegel, 1865) 150
Pale-vented bush-hen Amaurornis moluccana (Wallace, 1865) 151
Red rail Aphanapteryx bonasia (de Sélys-Longchamps, 1848) (E) 152
Rodrigues rail Erythromachus leguati Milne-Edwards, 1873 (E) 153

References

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  1. ^ Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (March 2025). "Finfoots, flufftails, rails, trumpeters, cranes, Limpkin". IOC World Bird List. v 15.1. Retrieved March 3, 2025.