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106 relations: Africa, Allopatric speciation, Amaurornis, Anurolimnas, Arthropod, Ash-throated crake, Asia, Astaracian, Australia, Australian crake, Baillon's crake, Band-bellied crake, Bermuda, Binomial nomenclature, Black crake, Black-tailed crake, Brown crake, Caribbean, Central Europe, Clade, Cladistics, Clutch (eggs), Convergent evolution, Coot, Coturnicops, Crex, Crypsis, Dot-winged crake, Down feather, East Africa, East Asia, Eurasia, Evolutionary grade, Evolutionary radiation, Extinction, Family (biology), Fossil, Gallirallus, Genus, Great Maui crake, Great O‘ahu crake, Habitat, Hawaiian rail, Henderson crake, Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands), Holocene, Holocene extinction, India, Invertebrate, Iris (anatomy), ..., Journal of Avian Biology, Kosrae crake, Laterallus, Laysan rail, List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species, Little crake, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Madagascar, Mangaia crake, Miocene, Molecular phylogenetics, Mollusca, Monogamy, Monotypic taxon, Moorhen, Morphology (biology), Mustelirallus, Neotropical realm, North America, Oceania, Ocellated crake, Pacific Ocean, Pardirallus, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Polyphyly, Precocial, Predation, Prehistory, Rail (bird), Rallus, Río de la Plata, Reed (plant), Ruddy-breasted crake, Saint Helena crake, Sakalava rail, Sora (bird), South Asia, Species, Spot-flanked gallinule, Spotless crake, Spotted crake, Starling, Storrs L. Olson, Striped crake, Sub-Saharan Africa, Subfossil, Symplesiomorphy, Tahiti crake, Thrush (bird), Type species, Venice, Vertebrate, White-browed crake, Yellow-breasted crake. Expand index (56 more) »
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Allopatric speciation
Allopatric speciation (from the ancient Greek allos, meaning "other", and patris, meaning "fatherland"), also referred to as geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name, the dumbbell model, is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations of the same species become isolated from each other to an extent that prevents or interferes with genetic interchange.
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Amaurornis
Amaurornis is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.
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Anurolimnas
Anurolimnas is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae found in South America.
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Arthropod
An arthropod (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, "joint" and πούς pous, "foot") is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages.
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Ash-throated crake
The ash-throated crake (Mustelirallus albicollis) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Asia
Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.
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Astaracian
The Astaracian age is a period of geologic time, equivalent with the Middle Miocene and used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian crake
The Australian crake, also known as Australian spotted crake, (Porzana fluminea) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Baillon's crake
The Baillon's crake (Porzana pusilla) is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae.
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Band-bellied crake
The band-bellied crake (Porzana paykullii) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Bermuda
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Black crake
The black crake (Amaurornis flavirostra) is a waterbird in the rail and crake family, Rallidae.
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Black-tailed crake
The black-tailed crake (Amaurornis bicolor) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Brown crake
The brown crake (Amaurornis akool), or brown bush-hen, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family (Rallidae) found in South Asia.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.
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Central Europe
Central Europe is the region comprising the central part of Europe.
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Clade
A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".
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Cladistics
Cladistics (from Greek κλάδος, cládos, i.e., "branch") is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on the most recent common ancestor.
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Clutch (eggs)
A clutch of eggs is the group of eggs produced by birds, amphibians, or reptiles, often at a single time, particularly those laid in a nest.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
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Coot
Coots are small water birds that are members of the rail family, Rallidae.
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Coturnicops
Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.
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Crex
Crex is a small genus of birds in the rail family.
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Crypsis
In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal to avoid observation or detection by other animals.
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Dot-winged crake
The dot-winged crake (Porzana spiloptera) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Down feather
The down of birds is a layer of fine feathers found under the tougher exterior feathers.
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East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the eastern region of the African continent, variably defined by geography.
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East Asia
East Asia is the eastern subregion of the Asian continent, which can be defined in either geographical or ethno-cultural "The East Asian cultural sphere evolves when Japan, Korea, and what is today Vietnam all share adapted elements of Chinese civilization of this period (that of the Tang dynasty), in particular Buddhism, Confucian social and political values, and literary Chinese and its writing system." terms.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.
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Evolutionary grade
In alpha taxonomy, a grade is a taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity.
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Evolutionary radiation
An evolutionary radiation is an increase in taxonomic diversity or morphological disparity, due to adaptive change or the opening of ecospace.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Gallirallus
Gallirallus is a genus that contains about a dozen living, and several recently extinct, species of rails that live in the Australasian-Pacific region.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Great Maui crake
The great Maui rail or great Maui crake (Porzana severnsi) is an extinct bird species from Maui, one of two flightless rails which survived on Maui until people arrived in 150 C.E. It was the larger of two species of rail found on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
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Great O‘ahu crake
The Great Oahu crake or Great Oahu rail (Porzana ralphorum) is an extinct bird species that was endemic to the island of Ookinaahu in Hawaiokinai.
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Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
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Hawaiian rail
The Hawaiian rail (Porzana sandwichensis), Hawaiian spotted rail, or Hawaiian crake is an extinct species of diminutive rail that lived on Big Island of Hawaiokinai.
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Henderson crake
The Henderson crake or red-eyed crake (Porzana atra) is a species of flightless bird in the family Rallidae.
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Henderson Island (Pitcairn Islands)
Henderson Island (formerly also San Juan Bautista and Elizabeth Island) is an uninhabited island in the south Pacific Ocean.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Holocene extinction
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the Sixth extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch, mainly as a result of human activity.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
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Iris (anatomy)
In humans and most mammals and birds, the iris (plural: irides or irises) is a thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil and thus the amount of light reaching the retina.
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Journal of Avian Biology
The Journal of Avian Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of ornithology published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Nordic Society Oikos.
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Kosrae crake
The Kosrae crake or Kusaie Island crake (Porzana monasa), sometimes also stated as Kittlitz's rail, is an extinct bird from the family Rallidae.
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Laterallus
Laterallus is a genus of birds in the rail family Rallidae.
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Laysan rail
The Laysan rail or Laysan crake (Porzana palmeri) was a flightless bird endemic to the Northwest Hawaiian Island of Laysan.
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List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
Prehistoric birds are various taxa of birds that have become extinct before recorded history, or more precisely, before they could be studied alive by ornithologists.
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Little crake
The little crake (Porzana parva) is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae.
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Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot (May 10, 1748, Yvetot – August 24, 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.
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Madagascar
Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.
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Mangaia crake
The Mangaia crake (Porzana rua) is an extinct species of flightless bird in the rail family, Rallidae.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominately in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.
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Monogamy
Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Moorhen
Moorhens — sometimes called marsh hens — are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family (Rallidae).
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Morphology (biology)
Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Mustelirallus
Mustelirallus is a genus of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Oceania
Oceania is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia.
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Ocellated crake
The ocellated crake (Micropygia schomburgkii) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Pardirallus
Pardirallus is a genus of bird in the rail family, Rallidae.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Polyphyly
A polyphyletic group is a set of organisms, or other evolving elements, that have been grouped together but do not share an immediate common ancestor.
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Precocial
In biology, precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).
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Prehistory
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.
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Rail (bird)
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small- to medium-sized ground-living birds.
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Rallus
Rallus is a genus of wetland birds of the rail family.
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Río de la Plata
The Río de la Plata ("river of silver") — rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth and La Plata River (occasionally Plata River) in other English-speaking countries — is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers.
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Reed (plant)
Reed is a common name for several tall, grass-like plants of wetlands.
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Ruddy-breasted crake
The ruddy-breasted crake (Porzana fusca), or ruddy crake, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae.
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Saint Helena crake
The Saint Helena crake (Porzana astrictocarpus) is an extinct bird species from the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean, one of two flightless rails which survived there until the early 16th century.
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Sakalava rail
The Sakalava rail (Amaurornis olivieri) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Sora (bird)
The sora (Porzana carolina) is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae, sometimes also referred to as the sora rail or sora crake.
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South Asia
South Asia or Southern Asia (also known as the Indian subcontinent) is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan SAARC countries and, for some authorities, adjoining countries to the west and east.
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Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.
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Spot-flanked gallinule
The spot-flanked gallinule (Porphyriops melanops) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Spotless crake
The spotless crake (Porzana tabuensis) is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae.
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Spotted crake
The spotted crake (Porzana porzana) is a small waterbird of the family Rallidae.
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Starling
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae.
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Storrs L. Olson
Storrs Lovejoy Olson (born April 3, 1944) is an American biologist and ornithologist who spent his career the Smithsonian Institution, retiring in 2008.
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Striped crake
The striped crake (Aenigmatolimnas marginalis) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara.
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Subfossil
A subfossil (as opposed to a fossil) is a bone or other part of an organism that has not fully fossilized.
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Symplesiomorphy
In phylogenetics, a plesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy or symplesiomorphic character is an ancestral character or trait state shared by two or more taxa.
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Tahiti crake
The Tahiti crake (Porzana nigra), also known as Miller's rail, was a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Thrush (bird)
The thrushes are a family, Turdidae, of passerine birds with a worldwide distribution.
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Type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).
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Venice
Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
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Vertebrate
Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).
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White-browed crake
The white-browed crake (Amaurornis cinerea) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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Yellow-breasted crake
The yellow-breasted crake (Porzana flaviventer) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porzana
