Striped Crake / Amaurornis marginalis
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Striped Crake
SCI Name:
Protonym: Porzana marginalis Syst.Orn.Westafr. p.241
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Amaurornis
Taxonomy Code: strcra1
Type Locality: Gaboon.
Author: Hartlaub
Publish Year: 1857
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
AMAURORNIS
(Rallidae; † Philippine Bush-hen A. olivacea) Gr. αμαυρος amauros dark; ορνις ornis, ορνιθος ornithos bird; "Genera et Species typicae. ... *Amaurornis Rchb. olivacea (Gallin. — Meyen). Ic. Av. t. 192. ic. 1112—13." (Reichenbach 1853); "Amaurornis Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vög. p. xxi, 1852 (1853). Type (by original designation): Gallinula olivacea Meyen." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 95).
Var. Amaurormis.
Synon. Aenigmatolimnas, Erythra, Oenolimnas, Pisynolimnas.
marginalis
Med. L. marginalis marginal, pertaining to the margins or edges < L. margo, marginis edge, border.
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)
