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]

ImageCommon nameScientific NameDistribution
Little wood railAramides mangleBrazil.
Rufous-necked wood railAramides axillarisBelize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.
Grey-cowled wood railAramides cajaneusArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Russet-naped wood railAramides albiventrissouthern Mexico to Costa Rica.
Brown wood railAramides wolfiColombia, Ecuador, and possibly Peru.
Giant wood railAramides ypecahaArgentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Slaty-breasted wood railAramides saracuraBrazil and eastern Paraguay.
Red-winged wood railAramides calopterusBrazil, Ecuador and Peru.


There is also a doubtful species:

References

  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.
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