Aztec rail
The Aztec rail or Mexican rail, (Rallus tenuirostris) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is endemic to highland freshwater marshes in Mexico.[2] The species was formerly considered a subspecies of the King rail,[3] but further analyses have discovered it was more related to the Ridgeway's Rail.[2]
| Aztec rail | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Rallus |
| Species: | R. tenuirostris |
| Binomial name | |
| Rallus tenuirostris Ridgway, 1874 | |
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References
- BirdLife International (2014). "Rallus tenuirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- "Aztec Rail - Introduction | Neotropical Birds Online". neotropical.birds.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
- Maley, J.M. & Brumfield, R.T. (2013). "Mitochondrial and Next-Generation Sequence Data used to Infer Phylogenetic Relationships and Species Limits in the Clapper/King Rail Complex". The Condor. 115: 316–329. doi:10.1525/cond.2013.110138.
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