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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.
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 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
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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.
A small "purple swamphen" population in central Italy is the result of grey-headed swamphens that escaped from a zoo. [ 2 ] Little is known about the status of the western swamphen in Africa, but northeastern Algeria is considered one of its strongholds in this region.