Rufirallus is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae that are found in South America.
Rufirallus is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae that are found in South America.
==Taxonomy== The genus Rufirallus was introduced in 1856 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. He listed three species in the genus but did not specify which should be considered as the type species. Subsequently the English ornithologists Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin designated P. cayanensis (misspelled cayennensis) as the type. This specific name had been introduced by Pieter Boddaert in 1783 and is a junior synonym of Rallus viridis which had been introduced some years earlier in 1776 by the German zoologist Philipp Statius Müller. 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.
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