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The purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinica) is a swamphen in the genus Porphyrio. It is in the order Gruiformes, meaning "crane-like", an order which also contains cranes, rails, and crakes. The purple gallinule is a rail species, placing it into the family Rallidae. It is also known locally as the yellow-legged gallinule.
Porphyrio is the swamphen or swamp hen bird genus in the rail family.It includes some smaller species of gallinules which are sometimes separated as genus Porphyrula or united with the gallinules proper (or "moorhens") in Gallinula.
The purple swamphen has been split into the following species: [1] [2] [3] Western swamphen , Porphyrio porphyrio , southwest Europe and northwest Africa African swamphen , Porphyrio madagascariensis , sub-Saharan continental Africa and Madagascar
Purple gallinule is an alternative name for two species of birds in the rail family. It can refer to: Purple swamphen, a group of closely related species of swamphen of the Old World; American purple gallinule, Porphyrio martinicus of the New World
The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.
In some species, it is longer than the head (like the clapper rail of the Americas); in others, it may be short and wide (as in the coots), or massive (as in the purple gallinules). [5] A few coots and gallinules have a frontal shield , which is a fleshy, rearward extension of the upper bill.
American coot (Fulica americana) A – rare vagrant Allen's gallinule (Porphyrio alleni) A – rare vagrant American purple gallinule (Porphyrio martinicus) A – rare vagrant Western swamphen [8] (Porphyrio porphyrio) A – rare vagrant; first record 2016 Baillon's crake (Zapornia pusilla) A – rare vagrant, has bred Little crake (Zapornia parva)
Common gallinule, Gallinula (chloropus) galeata, recently split by the AOU, other committees still evaluating; Dusky moorhen, Gallinula tenebrosa; Former members of the genus: Lesser moorhen, Paragallinula angulata; Spot-flanked gallinule, Porphyriops melanops; Black-tailed native hen, Tribonyx ventralis; Tasmanian native hen, Tribonyx mortierii