Coturnicops | |
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Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Gruiformes |
Family: | Rallidae |
Genus: | Coturnicops G.R. Gray, 1855 |
Type species | |
Fulica noveboracensis[1] Gmelin, 1789
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Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.
The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species.[2] The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance".[3]