Flufftail

Flufftail
	White-spotted flufftail
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Sarothruridae
Genus:	Sarothrura; Heine, 1890
Type species
	Gallinula jardinei; A. Smith, 1839
Species
	see list
Synonyms
	"Corethrura" Reichenbach, 1845? fide G.R.Gray, 1846 (nomen nudum); Corethrura Reichenbach, 1849 (non Hope, 1843[verification needed]: preoccupied); Daseioura Penhallurick, 2003; Lemurolimnas Salomonsen, 1934; Saurothrura Sharpe, 1894;

Flufftails (genus Sarothrura) are small birds related to rails and finfoots. There are nine species, seven of which are distributed across sub-Saharan Africa, with the remaining two in Madagascar. The genus was long placed with the rail family Rallidae, but is now placed in the family Sarothruridae, along with three other species of wood rails (genus Canirallus).^[2]

^ "Sarothuridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
^ Garcia-R, Juan C.; Gibb, Gillian C.; Trewick, Steve A. (2014-12-01). "Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: Diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 81: 96–108. Bibcode:2014MolPE..81...96G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.008. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25255711.

[HM4-1] "Sarothuridae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.

[2] Garcia-R, Juan C.; Gibb, Gillian C.; Trewick, Steve A. (2014-12-01). "Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: Diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 81: 96–108. Bibcode:2014MolPE..81...96G. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.008. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 25255711.

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