Lewinia

Lewinia
Auckland rail (Lewinia muelleri)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Lewinia
Gray, GR, 1855
Type species
Rallus lewini[1]
Swainson, 1838
Species

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Lewinia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.

The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with Lewin's rail Lewinia pectoralis as the type species.[2] The genus name is from a synonym of the type species Rallus lewinii Swainson, 1837.[3] The common name commemorates the English engraver and naturalist John Lewin (1770–1819) who settled in Australia.[4]

Species

The genus contains the following four species:[5]

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Lewinia pectoralis Lewin's rail Australia, Wallacea, and New Guinea.
Lewinia mirifica Brown-banded rail the Philippines, from Luzon and Samar.
Lewinia muelleri Auckland rail Auckland Islands
Lewinia striata Slaty-breasted rail South and Southeast Asia

References

  1. ^ "Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  2. ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. pp. 120, 150.
  3. ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Lewinia". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  4. ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "lewinii". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.


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