Family Sarothruridae - Flufftails & Forest Rails [1]
The flufftails (Sarothruridae) and extinct adzebills (Aptornithidae) are sister taxa related in turn to finfoots (Heliornithidae) (Hackett et al.
2008; Boast et al. 2019).
Sarothruridae genera: 3
Sarothruridae species: 15
Sarothruridae subspecies: 21
Sarothruridae Breeding Range: AU, AF [2]
Sarothruridae
edit| Common name | Species + authority | Br. range |
au | yr | id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madagascar forest rail | Mentocrex kioloides (Pucheran, 1845) | AF | Puch | 1845 | 1 |
| Tsingy forest rail | Mentocrex beankaensis Goodman, Raherilalao & Block, 2011 | AF | Good | 2011 | 2 |
| White-spotted flufftail | Sarothrura pulchra (Gray, JE, 1829) | AF | Gray | 1829 | 3 |
| Buff-spotted flufftail | Sarothrura elegans (Smith, A, 1839) | AF | Smit | 1839 | 4 |
| Red-chested flufftail | Sarothrura rufa (Vieillot, 1819) | AF | Viei | 1819 | 5 |
| Chestnut-headed flufftail | Sarothrura lugens (Böhm, 1884) | AF | Böhm | 1884 | 6 |
| Streaky-breasted flufftail | Sarothrura boehmi Reichenow, 1900 | AF | Reic | 1900 | 7 |
| White-winged flufftail | Sarothrura ayresi (Gurney, JH Sr, 1877) | AF | Gurn | 1877 | 8 |
| Striped flufftail | Sarothrura affinis (Smith, A, 1828) | AF | Smit | 1828 | 9 |
| Madagascar flufftail | Sarothrura insularis (Sharpe, 1870) | AF | Shar | 1870 | 10 |
| Slender-billed flufftail | Sarothrura watersi (Bartlett, E, 1880) | AF | Bart | 1880 | 11 |
| White-striped forest rail | Rallicula leucospila (Salvadori, 1876) | AU | Salv | 1876 | 12 |
| Chestnut forest rail | Rallicula rubra Schlegel, 1871 | AU | Schl | 1871 | 13 |
| Forbes's forest rail | Rallicula forbesi Sharpe, 1887 | AU | Shar | 1887 | 14 |
| Mayr's forest rail | Rallicula mayri Hartert, EJO, 1930 | AU | Hart | 1930 | 15 |
Sarothruridae genera
edit| Genus + authority | spp | Br. range |
au | yr | id | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mentocrex Peters, JL, 1932 | 2 | AF | Pete | 1932 | 1 | Move both (9.2) Madagascan wood rails from unrelated Canirallus to Mentocrex (Boast et al. 2019). |
| Sarothrura Heine, 1890 | 9 | AF | Hein | 1890 | 2 | |
| Rallicula Schlegel, 1871 | 4 | AU | Schl | 1871 | 3 | MOVE the following four species from Rallina to Rallicula (Christidis & Boles 2008); Rallicula rails form a clade with flufftails and Mentocrex rails in the Sarothruridae (Livezey 1998; Garcia-R et al. 2020). |
References
edit- ^ Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2023. IOC World Bird List (v 13.2). https://www.worldbirdnames.org
- ^ IOC Ranges