Coturnicops

Coturnicops
Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Coturnicops G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
Fulica noveboracensis [1] Gmelin, 1789

Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.

Taxonomy

The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species. ^[2] The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance". ^[3]

Species

The genus contains the following two species: ^[4]

Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Swinhoe's rail	Coturnicops exquisitus	Manchuria and southeastern Siberia.
	Yellow rail	Coturnicops noveboracensis	Canada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States

The genus formerly included the speckled rail (Laterallus notatus). ^[4]

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. p. 120.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 120. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (February 2025). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". IOC World Bird List Version 15.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 March 2025.