Mentocrex

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Mentocrex
Canirallus kioloides 1868.jpg
Madagascar wood rail Mentocrex kioloides
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Sarothruridae
Genus: Mentocrex
Peters JL, 1932
Species

2, see text

Mentocrex is a genus of birds in the flufftail family, Sarothruridae. The genus includes two species, both of which are endemic to forests in Madagascar.

Species[]

The genus contains two species.[1]

These two species were formerly placed in the genus Canirallus together with the grey-throated rail (Canirallus oculeus). A molecular genetic study published in 2019 found that the grey-throated rail is not closely related to the Madagascan and tsingy wood rails. The grey-throated rail is related to the Rallidae while the wood rails are closely related to the Sarothrura.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  2. ^ Boast, A.P.; et al. (2019). "Mitochondrial genomes from New Zealand's extinct adzebills (Aves: Aptornithidae: Aptornis) support a sister-taxon relationship with the Afro-Madagascan Sarothruridae". Diversity. 11 (24): 24. doi:10.3390/d11020024.
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