Yellow-breasted crake

The yellow-breasted crake (Laterallus flaviventer) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was formerly sometimes placed in the obsolete genus Poliolimnas or united with the Ocellated crake in Micropygia, and is now occasionally separated in a monotypic genus Hapalocrex. Phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA revealed that it is not a part of Porzana proper, and instead belongs within the Coturnicops–Laterallus clade.[2][3] While its precise relationships are still insufficiently resolved, it is not closely related to Micropygia, and Stervander et al. (2019) suggested that it should be referred to as Laterallus flaviventer pending further data.[3]

Yellow-breasted crake
at Arari, Maranhão, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Laterallus
Species:
L. flaviventer
Binomial name
Laterallus flaviventer
(Boddaert, 1783)
Synonyms

Hapalocrex flaviventer
Micropygia flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783)
Poliolimnas flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783)

It is found in most of Central and South America, as well as the Greater Antilles. Its natural habitat is swamps and marshes.[1] This small rail has yellow legs, buff underparts, black barring on the flanks and a dark-streaked back, and a black crown.[4]

Taxonomy

The yellow-breasted crake was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1781 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux.[5] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text.[6] Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Rallus flaviventer in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[7] The yellow-breasted crake is now placed in the genus Porzana that was erected by the French ornithologist Louis-Pierre Vieillot in 1816.[8][9] The generic name is the Venetian word for the small crakes. The specific epithet combines the Latin flavus meaning "yellow" with venter meaning "belly".[10]

The yellow-breasted crake is sometimes placed in the monotypic genus Hapalocrex.[11]

Five subspecies are recognised:[9]

  • L. f. gossii (Bonaparte, 1856) – Cuba, Jamaica
  • L. f. hendersoni Bartsch, 1917 – Hispaniola, Puerto Rico
  • L. f. woodi van Rossem, 1934 – central Mexico to northwest Costa Rica
  • L. f. bangsi Darlington, 1931 – north Colombia
  • L. f. flaviventer (Boddaert, 1783) – Panama to the Guianas south through Brazil to north Argentina

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Porzana flaviventer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Garcia-R, Juan C.; Gibb, Gillian C.; Trewick, Steve A. (December 2014). "Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: Diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 81: 96–108. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.008. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25255711.
  3. Stervander, Martin; Ryan, Peter G.; Melo, Martim; Hansson, Bengt (2019). "The origin of the world's smallest flightless bird, the Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi (Aves: Rallidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 130: 92–98. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.007. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 30321695.
  4. Gochfeld, Michael (1973). "Observations on New or Unusual Birds from Trinidad, West Indies, and Comments on the Genus Plegadis in Venezuela". The Condor. 75 (4): 474–478. doi:10.2307/1366575. JSTOR 1366575.
  5. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1781). "Le petit râle de Cayenne". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Volume 15. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 259–260.
  6. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de; Martinet, François-Nicolas; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Petit râle, de Cayenne". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Volume 9. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 847.
  7. Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 52, Number 847.
  8. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 61.
  9. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
  10. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 161, 315. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  11. Taylor, B.; de Juana, E. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Yellow-breasted Crake (Hapalocrex flaviventer)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 18 July 2019.


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