Laterallus Xenopterus Bird

Laterallus Xenopterus Bird

Laterallus Xenopterus Bird

English Name:  Rufous-faced Crake
Latin Name:  Laterallus xenopterus
Protonym:  Laterallus xenopterus Auk 51 p.365
Taxonomy:  Gruiformes / Rallidae / Laterallus
Taxonomy Code:  rufcra1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Conover
Publish Year:  1934
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

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.

xenopterum / xenopterus
Gr. ξενος xenos  different; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.