Amaurornis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Subsectio: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauria
Ordo: Saurischia
Cladus: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Infraclassis: Aves
Cladus: Euavialae
Cladus: Avebrevicauda
Cladus: Pygostylia
Cladus: Ornithothoraces
Cladus: Euornithes
Cladus: Ornithuromorpha
Cladus: Ornithurae
Cladus: Carinatae
Parvclassis: Neornithes
Cohors: Neognathae
Ordo: Gruiformes

Familia: Rallidae
Genus: Amaurornis
Species: A. flavirostra ― Amaurornis isabellina ― A. magnirostris ―Amaurornis moluccana ― Amaurornis olivacea ― Amaurornis phoenicurus.

Name

Amaurornis Reichenbach, 1853

References

* Reichenbach 1853. Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie lfr.3DieVogel p.XXI ? rel Av.Syst.Nat. p.xxi

Amaurornis is a genus of birds in the rail family Rallidae. The species in this genus are typically called bush-hens. A monotypic subtribe, Amaurornithina, was proposed for this genus.[1]
Taxonomy

The genus Amaurornis was erected by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1853 with the plain bush-hen (Amaurornis olivacea) as the type species.[2] The name comes from the Greek amauros, meaning "dusky" or "brown" and ornis, meaning "bird".[3]

The New Guinea flightless rail was sometimes included in this genus, but more often held to constitute a distinct monotypic genus Megacrex. The first cladistic studies of rails, based on morphology, strongly suggested that Amaurornis as traditionally defined is not monophyletic, and that several species placed here are in fact closer to the small crakes traditionally placed in Porzana. This was subsequently confirmed by molecular data. However, these smallish species are probably not close to the large members of Porzana either, and would warrant re-establishment of the old genus Zapornia.[1][4]

Species

The genus contains the species:[5]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Amaurornis phoenicurus	White-breasted waterhen	tropical Asia from Pakistan east to Indonesia
	Amaurornis olivacea	Plain bush-hen or Philippine bush-hen	Philippines
	Amaurornis magnirostris	Talaud bush-hen	Talaud Islands, Indonesia
	Amaurornis isabellina	Isabelline bush-hen	Sulawesi
	Amaurornis moluccana	Pale-vented bush-hen, rufous-tailed bush-hen or rufous-tailed waterhen	Australia, the Moluccan Islands, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands

References

Livezey, B.C. (1998). "A phylogenetic analysis of the Gruiformes (Aves) based on morphological characters, with an emphasis on the rails (Rallidae)". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 353 (1378): 2077–2151. doi:10.1098/rstb.1998.0353. PMC 1692427.
Reichenbach, Ludwig (1853). Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie (in German). Dresden and Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. xxi.
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
García-R, J.C.; Gibb, G.C.; Trewick, S.A. (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.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
Name

Amaurornis Reichenbach, 1853
References

Reichenbach 1853. Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie lfr.3DieVogel p.XXI ? rel Av.Syst.Nat. p.xxi

Vernacular names
suomi: Suokanat