Striped crake
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| Striped crake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Aenigmatolimnas J.L. Peters, 1932 |
| Species: | A. marginalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Aenigmatolimnas marginalis (Hartlaub, 1857)
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| Synonyms | |
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Porzana marginalis | |
The striped crake (Aenigmatolimnas marginalis) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is the only species in the genus Aenigmatolimnas, having formerly been included in Porzana or in the defunct genus Poliolimnas. Its precise relationships, however, are still enigmatic.
Range
[edit | edit source]It is found in Cameroon, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Vagrants have been recorded in Kuwait, Italy, Algeria, Morocco and Libya.
Gallery
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male and chicks -
chick
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Image at ADW
- Striped crake - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
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