Lewinia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.
| Lewinia | |
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| Auckland rail (Lewinia muelleri) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Lewinia Gray, GR, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Rallus lewini[1] Swainson, 1838
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| Species | |
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The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with Lewin's rail Lewinia pectoralis as the type species.[2] The genus name is from a synonym of the type species Rallus lewinii Swainson, 1837.[3] The common name commemorates the English engraver and naturalist John Lewin (1770–1819) who settled in Australia.[4]
Species
editThe genus contains the following four species:[5]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Lewinia pectoralis | Lewin's rail | Australia, Wallacea, and New Guinea. |
| Lewinia mirifica | Brown-banded rail | the Philippines, from Luzon and Samar. | |
| Lewinia muelleri | Auckland rail | Auckland Islands | |
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Lewinia striata | Slaty-breasted rail | India |
References
edit- ^ "Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. pp. 120, 150.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Lewinia". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "lewinii". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ 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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