Porzana

Taxobox
name = Spotted Crake


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Spotted Crake, "Porzana porzana"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Gruiformes
familia = Rallidae
genus = "Porzana"
genus_authority = Vieillot, 1816
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="see text"

"Porzana" is a genus of crakes. It has a global distribution, contains 13 living species, and 4-5 recently extinct ones. In addition, a large number of prehistorically extinct species known only from fossil or subfossil remains have been discovered.

Living species
* Little Crake, "Porzana parva"
* Baillon's Crake, "Porzana pusilla"
* Spotted Crake, "Porzana porzana"
* Australian Spotted Crake, "Porzana fluminea"
* Sora, "Porzana carolina"
* Dot-winged Crake, "Porzana spiloptera"
* Ash-throated Crake, "Porzana albicollis"
* Ruddy-breasted Crake, "Porzana fusca"
* Band-bellied Crake, "Porzana paykullii"
* Spotless Crake, "Porzana tabuensis"
* Henderson Island Crake, "Porzana atra"
* Yellow-breasted Crake, "Porzana flaviventer"
* White-browed Crake, "Porzana cinerea"

Extinct species
* Laysan Rail, "Porzana palmeri" (1944)
* Hawaiian Rail, "Porzana sandwichensis" (c.1890)
* Kosrae Island Crake, "Porzana monasa" (c. mid-late 19th century)
* Miller's Crake, "Porzana nigra" (c.1800, doubtful species)
* Saint Helena Crake, "Porzana astrictocarpus" (early 16th century)
* Great O‘ahu Crake, "Porzana ralphorum" (prehistoric)
* Great Maui Crake, "Porzana severnsi" (prehistoric)
* Mangaia Crake, "Porzana rua" (prehistoric)
* Liliput Crake, "Porzana menehune" (prehistoric)
* Small O‘ahu Crake, "Porzana ziegleri" (prehistoric)
* Small Maui Crake, "Porzana keplerorum" (prehistoric)
* Easter Island Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* Great Big Island Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* Great Kaua‘i Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* Huahine Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* Mangaia Crake #2, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* Marquesas Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* Marianas Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric) - possibly 2 species
* Medium Kaua‘i Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* Medium Maui Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* Small Big Island Crake, "Porzana" sp. (prehistoric)
* "Porzana estramosi" (Sajóvölgyi Middle? - Late Miocene of Hungary)
* "Porzana piercei" (Shore Hills Late Pleistocene of Bermuda, W Atlantic)
* "Porzana" cf. "flaviventer" (Bermuda, West Atlantic)

The Middle Pleistocene fossil described as "Porzana auffenbergi" is now placed in "Rallus".

References

* Taylor, P. Barry & van Perlo, Ber (1998): "Rails : a guide to the rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots of the world". Yale University Press, New Haven. ISBN 0-300-07758-0.