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Clapper Rail
Rallus longirostris
  Boddaert, 1783
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Inaccessible Island Rail
Atlantisia rogersi
  King Rail
Rallus elegans
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Taxonomy and Distribution

Taxa

 Clapper Rail Rallus longirostris (3251)
 
 
Polytypic Group: Clapper Rail (Atlantic Coast): crepitans/waynei
 crepitansAtlantic coast (Connecticut to ne North Carolina)
 wayneiCoastal Atlantic salt marshes (se North Carolina to e Florida)
 
Polytypic Group: Clapper Rail (Gulf Coast): saturatus/scottii
 saturatusGulf Coast (sw Alabama to Texas and Tamaulipas)
 scottiiCoastal Florida (Pensacola to Cape Sable and Jupiter)
 
Monotypic Group: Clapper Rail (San Francisco Bay): obsoletus
 obsoletusN California (Humboldt Bay to Monterey Bay)
 
Monotypic Group: Clapper Rail (Light-footed): levipes
 levipesS Calif. (Santa Barbara) to Baja Calif. (Scammons Lagoon)
 
Monotypic Group: Clapper Rail (South Baja): beldingi
 beldingiW Mexico (s Baja from Magdalena Bay to Espírito Santo I.)
 
Monotypic Group: Clapper Rail (Yuma): yumanensis
 yumanensisSalton Sea and Colorado River basin to w Mexico (Nayarit)
 
Polytypic Group: Clapper Rail (Caribbean): caribaeus
 insularumMangrove swamps of Florida Keys
 coryiMangrove swamps of Bahamas
 leucophaeusIsle of Pines
 caribaeusCuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico to Antigua and n Antilles
 
Monotypic Group: Clapper Rail (Cyperet's): cypereti
 cyperetiCoastal sw Colombia to Ecuador and nw Peru (Tumbes)
 
Polytypic Group: Clapper Rail (Central American): pallidus
 pallidusMangroves of se Mexico (coastal n Yucatán Peninsula)
 grossiSE Mexico (islands on Chinchorro Bank off Quintana Roo)
 belizensisBelize (Ycacos Lagoon)
 
Polytypic Group: Clapper Rail (South American): longirostris
 phelpsiExtreme ne coastal Colombia and extreme nw Venezuela
 margaritaeMargarita I. (Venezuela)
 pelodramusTrinidad
 longirostrisCoasts of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana
 crassirostrisCoastal e Brazil (Amazon estuary to Santa Catarina)


References

  • Rallus longirostris: Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
  • Rallus longirostris: Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2011. The Clements checklist of birds of the world
  • Rallus longirostris: Gill, F & D Donsker (Eds). 2013. IOC World Bird Names (v 3.3). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org [Accessed 2013-02-04]
  • Rallus longirostris: Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2012. IOC World Bird List (v 3.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ [Accessed 2012-11-19]
  • Rallus longirostris: Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2012. IOC World Bird List (v 3.1). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
  • Rallus longirostris: Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2012. IOC World Bird Names (v 2.11). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
  • Garrigues, R. and Dean, R.: Birds of Costa Rica; Christopher Helm, 2007; ISBN:0-801-47373-X
  • S.N.G. Howell and S. Webb: A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America; Oxford University Press, April 1995; ISBN:0-198-54012-4