Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Tetrapoda > Class Aves > Order Gruiformes > Family Rallidae > Genus Porzana

Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Rallus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

PorzanaVieillot, 1816accepted genus name

Species group names

Rallus carolina Linnaeus, 1758 objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: soraral sources: Avibase - the world bird database
 English: sora sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)
 English-United States: Sora sources: Charles Hussey
 French: marouette de Caroline sources: Avibase - the world bird database
 German: Carolinasumpfhuhn sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Lithuanian: geltonsnapė švygžda sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Polish: kureczka karolińska sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Russian: погоныш каролинский sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Slovenian: Ameriška tukalica sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Spanish, Castillian: polluela sora sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: Karolinasumphöna sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Turkish: karolina yelvesi; sora sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Welsh: rhegen sora

Literature

basis of record

Banks, R.C., R.W. McDiarmid, and A.L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication No. 166. 79 p.

additional source

Field Guide to Birds of North America 1983

additional source

Peterson, R.T. and V.M. Peterson. 2002. A field guide to the birds of eastern and central North America. Fifth Edition. Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York. 427 p.

additional source

Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p.

additional source

Squires, H.J. 1990. Decapod Crustacea of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 221. 532 p.

additional source

Vanner, M. 2003. The encyclopedia of North American birds. Paragon Publishing. Bath. 383 p.

additional source

Gallardo, J. C., V. Macías, and E. Velarde. 2009. Birds (Vertebrata: Aves) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1321–1342 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

additional source

ITIS database

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (10 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (126 publications)
Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Adriaens, P. (2014). Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159013

Drs Cees Roselaar. Porzana carolina (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=96770

Image

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, fresh

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159013
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:96770

Last modified

2011-04-27 by Drs Cees Roselaar & by Peter Adriaens

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