Lewinia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- Genus
- Lewinia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Lewinia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lewinia
Lewinia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.
The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with Lewin's rail Lewinia pectoralis as the type species. The genus name is from a synonym of the type species Rallus lewinii Swainson, 1837. The common name commemorates the English engraver and naturalist John Lewin (1770–1819) who settled in Australia.
...Lewinia in languages:
- English
- Lewin's Rail and Allies
- Finnish
- australaasianluhtakanat
- German
- Krickrallen
- Japanese
- オーストラリアクイナ属
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Amaurolimnas
- Amaurornis
- Anurolimnas
- Aphanapteryx
- Aramides
- Aramidopsis
- Atlantisia
- Canirallus
- Capellirallus
- Coturnicops
- Crex
- Cyanolimnas
- Diaphorapteryx
- Dryolimnas
- Erythromachus
- Fulica
- Fulica × Gallinula
- Gallicrex
- Gallinula
- Gallirallus
- Gymnocrex
- Hapalocrex
- Himantornis
- Hovacrex
- Laterallus
- Lewinia
- Megacrex
- Micropygia
- Mundia
- Mustelirallus
- Nesotrochis
- Paragallinula
- Pardirallus
- Poliolimnas
- Porphyrio
- Porphyriops
- Porzana
- Rallina
- Rallus
- Rougetius
- Tribonyx
- Vitirallus
- Zapornia