Species of Thailand
White-browed crake
Poliolimnas cinerea
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, 1819
In Thai: นกอัญชันคิ้วขาว
The white-browed crake (Poliolimnas cinereus) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is found in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, India, Malaysia, Micronesia, New Caledonia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vanuatu.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. The Iwo Jima rail, a doubtfully valid subspecies formerly native to Iwo Jima, is now extinct.
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Category / Seasonal Status
BCST Category: Recorded in an apparently wild state within the last 50 years
BCST Seasonal status: Resident or presumed resident
Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- Genus
- Poliolimnas
- Species
- Poliolimnas cinerea
Common names
- Thai: นกอัญชันคิ้วขาว
Subspecies
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, 1819
Common name: White-browed crake
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea, Masauyi Hachisuka, 1939
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea, Johann Reinhold Forster, 1844
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea, John Gould, 1847
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea, Ernst Johann Otto Hartert, 1924
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea, Hermann Schlegel, 1865
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea, Gregory Macalister Mathews, 1926
Amaurornis cinerea cinerea, Gregory Macalister Mathews, 1926
Synonyms
- Porzana cinerea, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1819)
- Amaurornis cinerea, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1819)
- Poliolimnas cinereus, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1819)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)
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