Rufous-faced crake
species of bird
The rufous-faced crake (Rufirallus xenopterus) is a species of bird in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. This species was formerly placed in the genus Laterallus.
Taxonomy
The rufous-faced crake was formally described in 1934 by the American amateur ornithologist Boardman Conover based on a specimen collected near the town of Horqueta in central Paraguay. Conover assigned the species to the genus Laterallus and coined the binomial name Laterallus xenopterus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2023 found that the genus Laterallus was polyphyletic. In the reorganization of the species to create monophyletic genera, the rufous-faced crake was placed with four other crakes in the genus Rufirallus that had been introduced in 1856 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The genus name combines the Latin rufus meaning "rufous" with the genus Rallus that had been introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the rails. The specific epithet xenopterus combines the Ancient Greek ξενος/xenos meaning "different" with -πτερος/-pteros meaning "-winged". The species is considered to be monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
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