Aramides

Aramides
Grey-cowled wood rail, Aramides cajaneus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Aramides
Pucheran, 1845
Type species
Fulica cayennensis[1]
Gmelin, 1789
Species

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Aramides is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.

It contains the following 8 species:[2]

Image Common name Scientific Name Distribution
Little wood rail Aramides mangle Brazil.
Rufous-necked wood rail Aramides axillaris Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Grey-cowled wood rail Aramides cajaneus Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Russet-naped wood rail Aramides albiventris southern Mexico to Costa Rica.
Brown wood rail Aramides wolfi Colombia, Ecuador, and possibly Peru.
Giant wood rail Aramides ypecaha Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Slaty-breasted wood rail Aramides saracura Brazil and eastern Paraguay.
Red-winged wood rail Aramides calopterus Brazil, Ecuador and Peru.


There is also a doubtful species:

  1. ^ "Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  2. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.