Purple Gallinule
Porphyrio martinica(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Purple Gallinule
The Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Rallidae (Rails, Gallinules, and Coots) in the order Gruiformes.
Range: locally from southern USA to northern Argentina and West IndiesRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Porphyrio martinica
- Order
- Gruiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Purple Gallinule
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Fulica martinica
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Martinique, West Indies.
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.259
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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