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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.
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 Porphyrio gallinules are distributed in the warmer regions of the world. The group probably originated in Africa in the Middle Miocene, before spreading across the world in waves ...
The common gallinule (Gallinula galeata) is a bird in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists' Union in July 2011. [ 3 ] It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals, and other wetlands in the Americas.
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
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
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 ...
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The closely related common gallinule G. galeata of the New World, and the tristan moorhen G. nesiotis and gough moorhen G. comeri of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, formerly often regarded as conspecific, are now treated as a separate species by all the ornithological authorities, [6] following the discovery of significant genetic differences ...