Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Passerae > Superorder Ciconiimorphae > Order Gruiformes > Suborder Ralli > Superfamily Ralloidea > Family Rallidae > Genus Porphyrio

Porphyrio porphyrio (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Fulica Linnaeus, 1758

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Genus group names

*Porphyrio*	Brisson, 1760	accepted genus name

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English: Purple Swamphen sources: Charles Hussey

German: Purpurhuhn sources: german PESI focal point

Greek: Σουλτανοπουλάδα; Σουλτανοπουλάδα sources: Greek PESI focal point

Hebrew: פורפיריה כחולה sources: Hebrew PESI focal point

Italian: Pollo sultano sources: italian PESI focal point

Lithuanian: paprastoji sultonvištė; sultonvištė sources: Lithuanian PESI focal point

Norwegian: Sultanhøne sources: Norwegian PESI focal point

Norwegian Bokmål: sultanhøne sources: Syst. Nat. ed. 10 p. 152

Norwegian Nynorsk: sultanhøne sources: Syst. Nat. ed. 10 p. 152

Russian: султанка sources: Russian PESI focal point

Slovenian: sultanka sources: Slovenian PESI focal point

Spanish, Castillian: Calamón común sources: spanish PESI focal point

Turkish: Saz horozu sources: Turkish PESI focal point

Ukrainian: Гігантська лиска; Лиска гігантська

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Drs. Cees Roselaar. Porphyrio porphyrio (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/f8bd9ecc-13cf-4ee1-8efd-48e580073aa8

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