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Aramidae
Aramidae is a monotypic bird family in Gruiformes containing only the Limpkin (Aramus guarauna), an apple-snail-eating wetland bird from Florida to South America, sister to cranes within core Gruiformes.
Crex
Crex, a rail genus (Rallidae) erected by Bechstein in 1803, holds the corncrake Crex crex and formerly the African crake C. egregia; phylogenomics shows it is not monophyletic, and Crecopsis is proposed for the African crake.
Gallinula
Gallinula (moorhens), Brisson 1760, a genus of Rallidae rails in Gruiformes; includes Eurasian Moorhen G. chloropus and Common Gallinule G. galeata; traditionally polyphyletic, revised by Sangster et al.
Gruidae
Gruidae, the crane family of Gruiformes: 15 species in two subfamilies (Balearicinae crowned cranes, Gruinae true cranes), sister to limpkins and trumpeters, Eocene origin, threatened by habitat loss.
Grus nigricollis
Grus nigricollis, the black-necked crane (Thrung Thrung Karmo), is the only alpine crane, breeding on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau at 2,600-4,900 m and wintering in Yunnan-Guizhou, Tibet, and Bhutan; IUCN Near Threatened, population about 17,400-17,610 and increasing.
Laterallus
Laterallus (G.R. Gray, 1855) is a genus of small American rails, type genus of tribe Laterallini; includes the Black Rail L. jamaicensis and, since 2019, the Inaccessible Island Rail.
Pedionomus
Pedionomus Gould, 1840 is a monotypic bird genus (family Pedionomidae, order Charadriiformes) containing only the plains-wanderer Pedionomus torquatus, a critically endangered Australian grassland shorebird with reversed sex roles.
Porphyrio
Porphyrio (Brisson, 1760) is the rail genus of swamphens and purple gallinules (Rallidae, Gruiformes), including the purple swamphen complex, the takahē, and the Gray-headed Swamphen established in Florida.
Porphyrio porphyrio
Porphyrio porphyrio, the purple swamphen (poule sultane; pukeko in New Zealand), is a large wetland rail of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia, Least Concern, with 780,000 to 2,910,000 individuals and a disputed six-species split.
Porzana
Porzana (Vieillot, 1816) is a genus of small crakes in the rail family Rallidae, type species the spotted crake P. porzana; molecular phylogenetics showed it was not monophyletic, so most species moved to Zapornia and Hapalocrex.
Rallus
Rallus (Greater Rails) is a valid genus of long-billed marsh rails erected by Linnaeus in 1758, including Clapper, Ridgway's, King, Virginia, Water, and Austral rails; known for secretive wetland habits, 2014 species splits, and endangered coastal subspecies.