Coturnicops

Coturnicops
	Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Coturnicops; G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
	Fulica noveboracensis; Gmelin, 1789

Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.

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The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species.^[2] The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance".^[3]

The genus contains the following three species:^[4]

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Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
Swinhoe's rail	Coturnicops exquisitus	Manchuria and southeastern Siberia.
Yellow rail	Coturnicops noveboracensis	Canada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States
Speckled crake	Coturnicops notatus	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Guyana, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela

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[1]
"Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
[2]
Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 120.
[3]
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
[4]
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.

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[HM4-1] [1]
"Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.

[2] [2]
Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 120.

[3] [3]
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[ioc-4] [4]
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.

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Coturnicops

Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Coturnicops G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
Fulica noveboracensis^[1] Gmelin, 1789