Chestnut-headed Crake
Chestnut-headed Crake (<em>Anurolimnas castaneiceps</em>) is a species of Rails, Crakes &amp; Coots (<em>Rallidae</em>) in the order Cranes and Allies.
Overview
Chestnut-headed Crake (Anurolimnas castaneiceps) is a species of Rails, Crakes & Coots (Rallidae) in the order Cranes and Allies.
Scientific Classification
Genus: Anurolimnas; binomial: Anurolimnas castaneiceps; authority: (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1869).
Distribution
Breeding range: South America.
Conservation Status
This taxon is listed as Extant (living) in the IOC World Bird List.
Remarks
Chestnut-headed Crake was formerly assigned to Anurolimnas. Subsequently treated as congeneric with Russet-crowned Crake, formerly assigned to Laterallus. Rufirallus has priority as the generic name for this clade (Dickinson & Remsen 2013; HBW; Garcia-R et al. 2020). Restored to the monotypic genus Anurolimnas (15.1) based on multilocus (mtDNA + nucDNA) phylogenetic analyses (Depino et al. 2023).
