Coturnicops
Sign in to saveCoturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderGruiformes
- FamilyRallidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
Observations recorded18,918
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Rallidae
- Collections
- USNM, ABS, WFVZ, UF, ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM: ROM, UMZC
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, China, Paraguay
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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. The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance".
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