Overview
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Clapper Rail, Light-Footed Clapper Rail
Description
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 2 meters (7 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Gruiformes
()
- Cranes, Rails
- Genus:
Rallus
()
- Linnaeus 1758 Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.153
- Specific name:
longirostris
- Bangs 1899 Proc.NewEngl.Zool.Cl. 1 p.45
- Subspecies:
levipes
- Scientific name: - Rallus longirostris levipes Bangs 1899
- Subspecies:
levipes
- Specific name:
longirostris
- Bangs 1899 Proc.NewEngl.Zool.Cl. 1 p.45
- Genus:
Rallus
(
- Order:
Gruiformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: June 24, 1996.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Rallus
There are approximately 105 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
R. abyssinicus · R. acquaticus · R. aequatorialis · R. aequatorialis aequatorialis · R. antarcticus (Austral Rail) · R. aquaticus (Water Rail) · R. aquaticus aquaticus (Water Rail) · R. aquaticus hibernans · R. aquaticus indicus · R. aquaticus korejewi · R. ardeoides · R. assimilis · R. benghalensis · R. caerulescens (African Rail) · R. cayanensis · R. cinereus · R. crex · R. dieffenbachii · R. ecaudata · R. elegans (Great Red-Breasted Rail) · R. elegans beldingi · R. elegans elegans (Great Red-Breasted Rail) · R. elegans ramsdeni · R. elegans tenuirostris · R. gularis · R. indicus · R. insignis (New Britain Rail) · R. limicola (Little Red-Breasted Rail) · R. limicola aequatorialis · R. limicola antarcticus · R. limicola friedmanni · R. limicola limicola (Little Red-Breasted Rail) · R. limicola meyerdeschauenseei · R. limicola zetarius · R. longirostis · R. longirostris (Salt-Water Marsh Hen) · R. longirostris beldingi (Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris belizensis · R. longirostris caribaeus · R. longirostris coryi · R. longirostris crassirostris · R. longirostris crepitans (Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris cypereti · R. longirostris grossi · R. longirostris insularum (Mangrove Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris leucophaeus · R. longirostris levipes (Light-Footed Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris longirostris (Salt-Water Marsh Hen) · R. longirostris magdalenae (Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris manglecola · R. longirostris margaritae · R. longirostris obsoletus (California Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris pallidus · R. longirostris pelodramus · R. longirostris phelpsi · R. longirostris saturatus (Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris scotti (Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris scottii (Florida Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris tenuirostris · R. longirostris waynei (Clapper Rail) · R. longirostris yumanensis (Yuma Clapper Rail) · R. longirostrus · R. maculatus · R. madagascariensis (Madagascar Rail) · R. mirificus · R. modestus · R. muelleri · R. nigricans · R. obsoletus · R. owsteni · R. owstoni · R. pacificus · R. parvus · R. pectoralis · R. pectoralis clelandi · R. pectoralis muelleri (Aukland Island Rail) · R. pectoralis pectoralis (Slate-Breasted Rail) · R. peyrousei · R. philippensis · R. philippensis assimilis · R. philippensis australis · R. philippensis pelewensis · R. philippensis sethsmithi · R. plateni (Platen's Celebes Rail) · R. plumbeiventris · R. poecilopterus (Barred Wing Rail) · R. poecilopterus poecilopterus (Barred Wing Rail) · R. porzana · R. rougetii · R. rufus · R. sanguinolentus · R. semiplumbeus (Bogotá Rail) · R. semiplumbeus peruvianus · R. semiplumbeus semiplumbeus (Bogotá Rail) · R. striatus · R. striatus albiventer · R. striatus gularis · R. striatus obscurior · R. tabuensis · R. tenuirostris
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Further Reading
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 252, p. 48, p. 78.
- Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History and including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Chicago, 1918- ENG url p. 333.
- FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. ENG url p. 105, p. 110, p. 77, p. 79, p. 94.
- Field Museum of Natural History bulletin. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, [1930]-c1990. ENG url p. 11.
- Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931- ENG url p. 248, p. 66.
- Occasional papers - San Diego Society of Natural History. San Diego, The Society. ENG url p. 13.
- Oceanus. [Woods Hole, Mass., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution] ENG url p. 21.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 340.
- Selected vertebrate endangered species of the seacoast of the United States / prepared by National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [Washington]: The Service: [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1980. ENG url p. 1, p. 2.
- The ecology of Tijuana Estuary, California: a national estuarine research reserve / by Joy B. Zedler, Christopher S. Nordby and Barbara E. Kus. [Washington, D.C.: NOAA Office of Coastal Resource Management, Sanctuaries and Reserves Division], 1992. ENG url p. 145, p. 151, p. 5, p. 68, p. 74.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 18, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 23157
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-176211
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13527601
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 176211
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNME05014
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: B04B
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178055
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 137.770 based on 2,000 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
