Red-and-white Crake / Laterallus leucopyrrhus
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Red-and-white Crake
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Protonym: Rallus leucopyrrhus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 28 p.550
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Laterallus
Taxonomy Code: rawcra1
Type Locality: Paraguay, ex Azara.
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1819
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LATERALLUS
(Rallidae; Ϯ Rufous-sided Crake L. melanophaius) Portmanteau of specific combination Rallus lateralis (Lichtenstein, 1823) (= syn. Laterallus melanophaius) (see Crybastus); "d. Laterallus, Bp." (Bonaparte 1854 (nom. nud.)); "1997. LATERALLUS, Pr. B. 1854. (Rallus melanophaia, Vieill.)" (G. Gray 1855); "Laterallus "Pr. B." G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 120. Type, by monotypy, Rallus melanophaius Vieillot." (Peters 1934, II, 189).
Var. Lateiallus.
Synon. Corethura, Creciscus, Crybastus, Donacophilus, Laterirallus, Limnocrex, Thryocrex.
leucopyrrhus
Gr. λευκος leukos white; πυρρος purrhos flame-coloured < πυρ pur, πυρος puros fire (cf. λευκοπυρρος leukopurrhos pale-red).
● ex “Ypacahá pardo-acanelado y blanco” of de Azara 1802-1805 (Laterallus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
