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Vogels Sarothrura is een geslacht van vogels uit de familie Sarothruridae. Deze familie werd heel lang beschouwd als een onderfamilie van de rallen, koeten en waterhoentjes (rallidae).[1] DNA-onderzoek naar de taxonomie van de vogels na de eeuwwisseling wees uit dat deze groep weliswaar tot de orde van de Gruiformes behoorde, maar minder verwant was aan de rallidae en eerder verwant was aan de fuutkoeten (Heliornithidae).[2] Het geslacht telt 9 soorten.[3] In het Afrikaans worden de vogels vleikuikens genoemd. Taxonomie Sarothrura affinis (Strepenral) Sarothrura ayresi (Witvleugelral) Sarothrura boehmi (Böhms ral) Sarothrura elegans (Bruinvlekral) Sarothrura insularis (Hovaral) Sarothrura lugens (Ugallaral) Sarothrura pulchra (Parelvlekral) Sarothrura rufa (Roodborstral) Sarothrura watersi (Bartletts ral) Bronnen, noten en/of referenties ↑ (en) Livezey, B.C., 1998. A phylogenetic analysis of the Gruiformes (Aves) based on morphological characters, with an emphasis on the rails (Rallidae).Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 353: 2077-2151. pdf ↑ (en) Tree of life project Gruiformes ↑ Gill, F., Wright, M. & Donsker, D. (2018). IOC World Bird Names (version 8.1). (en)
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alt=Two red-chested flufftails. A female on the left and a male on the right. |thumb|A display of sexual dimorphism in two red-chested flufftails. A young female is shown on the left, and an adult male is shown on the right. 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).
==Taxonomy== The genus Sarothrura was introduced in 1890 by the German ornithologist Ferdinand Heine as a replacement name for Corethrura that Ludwig Reichenbach had introduced in 1853. The name Corethrura was preoccupied as it had been used for a different genus in 1846 by the English zoologist George Gray. The type species was specified by Reichenbach as Gallinula jardinei A. Smith 1839, which a junior synonym of Crex affinis A. Smith, 1828, the striped flufftail. The genus name Sarothrura combines the Ancient Greek σαρωτρον/sarōtron meaning "broom" with ουρα/oura meaning "tail".