Colombian Crake / Mustelirallus colombianus
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Colombian Crake
SCI Name:
Protonym: Neocrex columbianus Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 12 p.171
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Mustelirallus
Taxonomy Code: colcra2
Type Locality: Palomina, Santa Marta, Colombia.
Author: Bangs
Publish Year: 1898
IUCN Status: Data Deficient
DEFINITIONS
Mustelirallus
(syn. Porzana Ϯ Ash-throated Crake P. albicollis) Specific name Crex mustelina Lichtenstein, 1823 (= syn. Porzana albicollis); genus Rallus Linnaeus, 1758, rail; "116. Mustelirallus, Bp. 353. albicollis, Vieill. (gularis, Jard. nec Cuv. mustelina, Licht. cinereus, Less.)" (Bonaparte 1856); "Mustelirallus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, 43, p. 599, 1856—type, by monotypy, Rallus albicollis Vieillot." (Hellmayr & Conover 1942, XIII, 361). Var. Mustellirallus.
colombiana / colombianum / colombianus / colombica
Colombia.
SUBSPECIES
Colombian Crake (ripleyi)
SCI Name: Mustelirallus colombianus ripleyi
ripleyi
Dr Sidney Dillon Ripley II (1913-2001) US spymaster, ornithologist, conservationist, explorer, Secretary of the Smithsonian Inst. 1964-1984 (syn. Aethopyga nipalensis koelzi, subsp. Cettia castaneocoronata, subsp. Collocalia linchi, subsp. Crateroscelis robusta, syn. Chrysocorythus estherae vanderbilti, subsp. Edolisoma mindanense, ‡Gallirallus, subsp. Hydrornis irena, subsp. Neocrex colombiana, subsp. Pellorneum ruficeps, subsp. Phodilus assimilis, subsp. Pteruthius aeralatus).
Colombian Crake (colombianus)
SCI Name: Mustelirallus colombianus colombianus
colombiana / colombianum / colombianus / colombica
Colombia.
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)
